The story of Persepolis is as amazing and unique. Its meaning and ending are not easily known, and that makes it even more intriguing. To have a better understanding of the book and its characters, let’s look at what this story has to say about life and love.
The meaning is still controversial but it has been suggested that it could be related to the fact that Persepolis was built on a hill, which would have made it a sort of necropolis or graveyard for past kings and dignitaries.
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Persepolis Movie Meaning Explanation
The Meaning Of Persepolis Is Still Undecided. Meaning of Persepolis is still being interpreted, but some believe that it could be related to the fact that this ancient city was built on top of a hill or pyramid structure.
Regardless, no one can deny how well every level detail has been depicted in this book and its movie adaptation – an amazing achievement for any book to make it onto the big screen! As part of these interpretations there are other factors.
Climax Of The Movie
Persepolis stands for the Persian king and ancient Persia at the time of Construction. A lot of significance has always been attributed to this book considering it’s the only one written in 3 languages. Like modern English, Pahlavi (an older form of Farsi) and Ancient Avesta which an Iranian language.
In fact, Iranian is considered a living language by some because its history goes back to a time before even the bible or Torah’s existence.
According to one of these theories, Persepolis can in turn mean – corpse pyramids that were once built on sacred places in ancient Persia. Which had their own meanings for each site and could not be changed as it would have been against nature’s rules!
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Even though Persepolis was once an arbitrary term, it is now sadly more widely used as the name ‘perse meaning corpse’ or ‘pyres meaning funeral pyre’. There are many instances of this when we look up words in dictionaries where they have copies of out-dated vocabulary and redundant word meanings.
Lesson Summary
The name ‘Persepolis’ means either the City of Pyramids or the city that is built on pyramids. The book is set at the time of construction and in pre-history with references to historic figures such as King Cyrus The Great, Croesus & Alexander the great.
The hard work and skill that went into the building of Persepolis can be contrasted with the demise of such cultures by Alexander. The symbolism on each structure meant something to its builders, but a lot has been lost in translation due to literal interpretations written down from memory years ago when some historians translated it literally from an ancient language.
However even modern translations have made errors or misinterpretations due to these same inaccuracies in writing centuries before any script.
Effects of the Islamic Revolution
Islamic influences over Persepolis were even greater than initially thought before the revolution in 1979. It means it was closed to all tourists as a result of strong political pressure from Khomeini’s ‘supreme leader’ members.
In fact, this is one thing about Iran that westerners have for long taken for granted; their historical treasures open to the public and by visiting you can learn its great depth & richness. Unfortunately we cannot say the same for Iran’s religious culture as a result of their return to an ‘islamic republic.
Persepolis Movie Ending Explanation
The Iranian Revolution in 1979 changed the status of Persepolis and it has been closed to all visitors since then. The movie ends quite sadly with A Pasargadae image realised that no-one living could actually visit (due to political reasons) & also when Darius is seen at a banquet scene having difficulty looking up from his plate due to him stuttering (a side effect of Parkinson’s disease).
Furthermore this ending contains an unc ut shot of an actor looking up from his plate to see a decorative ceiling that has been simplified under revolutionary art. It shows the naivety behind not realising how dangerous it was at this time in history as they simply moved ahead in their artistic revolution without understanding what dangers were looming over them.
Vienna Following the revolution in 1979 all westerners were banned from entering Iran, which also applied to tourists visiting Persepolis.
So it was closed as a result of political opinions that did not agree with authentic art & religious culture behind this great building and its importance or purpose. I’ve been limited by being unable to put any pictures up regarding Alexander’s real life story on the Persian empire for example (due to cultural bias).
After re-igniting its carvings in 2010 but under full restrictions not allowing any tourists to visit, which I have tried and it is still currently too dangerous (to allow a seperate research project run by westerners)!
That said both ‘Alexander’ buildings are now open again with limited access only. Due to these problems of course after the revolution nothing else could be done due to political reasons & old fashioned university curricul ums being too limited and not politically responsible anymore.
Conclusion
The real story behind the illusion of history was first brought to my attention in 1973 during a journey by living off the land for around four months at Jelgia, Yugoslavia. This compared with traditional tapestry art but Thessaloniki period and through studying ancient manuscripts.
I learned about Hellenic archeology which taught me loads about this time period and more importantly it showed that there is much more going on in ‘order’ to what we have been told time after time.
FAQs
1.What is the central idea of Persepolis?
Ans: Persepolis is an ancient city which flourished during the Persian Empire, it was a center of worship and export. It’s a major settlement that belonged to Darius I who established Persians as the major empire in Pan-Asia.
I made this large study because of the influence which was there (Paris) and to be able to view the incredible detail that still remains from a monument hidden underneath centuries & rubble!
2.Why do you like this movie?
Ans: I simply love movies where Persepolis are stars! As soon as she shows up in my mind’s eye with her more mature face well , that’s it; she is there, so I am here!
The language and drawing in this movie are also very enjoyable -and helps with the plot line –because they show how ‘every person’ in Iran felt during those difficult times. (Just look at her struggles being Iranian against her own family.
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