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"Is this a byproduct of growing up in a culture where film is often more sought-after than text? Does film actually make the interwoven concepts in the graphic novel Persepolis easier to understand, and if so is it catering to those brains made lazy by a cultures of moving pictures?"

This is an interesting question, teal.  To answer it, I wouldn't say that films are always, as you say, "catering to those brains made lazy by a cultures of moving pictures."  While there are, without a doubt, lazy brains out there, I believe that films can often make the concepts in a book more complicated and deeper than they already were.  Think about it--you mentioned the addition of music in the film, which throws a whole other element into the mix of the issues that were originally presented in the book and recreated in the film.  The viewer is then left to not only think about the images and the dialogue, but also how the music relates to what is going on, what it means, etc.  That's just one example, but I hope it sums up pretty accurately why I believe that films have more depth to them than most would think.