This week i read and watched some works relating to two of the scariest places to live in the world currently.
Guy Delisle's Pyongyang was drawn like an editorial or political cartoon but was full of quirky and witty information about the totalitarian state. The lack of privacy and the total devotion and obsessive admiration of the brainwashed people of North Korea is portrayed in somewhat of a light hearted way. I think this is because of the style of drawing i mentioned before as well as the panel above. Overall the book is an easy read with some funny moments and good information of a current issue happening in the world today.
I also watched the film Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. It is a coming of age, autobiographical story of the author. The difficulties of being a girl in a fundamentalist Islamic country and just being a teen are the main focus of the film. The film does a very good job in teaching a bit of the history of Iran and it does so in a beautiful and powerful way.
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