The Enduring Beauty of “Persepolis”
This powerful story shines with poetic animation, an exploration of deeper truths, and the protagonist's complex search for identity.

Amy Walsh returns to Philadelphia after 10 years to visit her ex-cop, current-con father and to join a stick-up crew. After a job gone wrong, Warren Mercer, the cop who put her dad in prison gets on her trail.
This powerful story shines with poetic animation, an exploration of deeper truths, and the protagonist's complex search for identity.
Overall, The Shining is a great film to watch for its atmosphere and setting. While the characters’ portrayals could’ve been more accurate to the book, they’re all still memorable nonetheless.
The film exhibits a respect for the craft and an empathy for human tribulations that have historically been ignored.
Life may find a way, but is it worth testing its fierceness and how far it will go?
People are so much deeper and far more extraordinary than what gender they were assigned at birth.
A complex, realistic, and loving mother-daughter relationship is at the heart of this story about Black pageants and the fight for a better future.