I loved the book, and I liked seeing it come to life into a movie form, however I do not feel that it had the same overall effect. As a movie, I liked having voices put to characters, and it made the story a lot more comical brought to motion, but in general it really only followed Marji's life, and even then, not in great detail. It was more like a brush over summary of the book. The only characters that were greatly detailed was the grandmother and Marji, everyone else was just brushed over, popping in and out throughout events.
As a film though, I liked that it was mostly in black and white, and the flashback aspect was an interesting interpretation. I also liked the mix of realism and cartoon. I noticed that in many scenes, there was a deep artistic quality to the backgrounds, using gray scale watercolors. It gave an added touch to the scenes showing the destruction and emptyness in Iran when Marji returned. Over layed with the cartoon people was interesting and I enjoyed it.
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