Word: soul
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...Satrapi's four graphic novels, published in France beginning in 2000, the movie is a very personal, painful and somehow larkish retelling of her growing up Iranian under the repressive regime of the Shah (she was nine when he was overthrown), then under the even more brutal and soul-grinding Islamic Republic, before she emigrated to Europe as a student. She spends time back in Tehran with her family, and getting married, finally coming to rest in Paris, where she launched a career translating her and her family's pleasures and perils into comic-book form...
...that music is the universal tongue. "Music has been a communication tool since humankind has existed," she says. "Music is a healer, a unifier. It breaks all the barriers between different nations. It relieves despair. It dampens war. Because when you listen to music, your brain is following your soul. I'm not scared by any genre, any musical background that is different from mine, because I know it's the same language...
What ensued was a distinctly American bout of soul-searching, heated debate, and pointed accusations of racism across the entire campus. The reason? The Quad revellers were black...
...What has become of us? Where is our soul...
...closed many of its plants. A classic entertainer and a professional mensch, he knows how to couch a daunting issue in human terms. In Sicko, as he said at a Cannes press conference today, the larger questions are: "Who are we? What has become of us? Where is our soul...