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A 13-year-old Lebanese-American girl named Jasira (Bishil) is shipped off from Syracuse to live with her chauvinistic dad (Macdissi) in Houston. While the First Gulf War rages on, Jasira encounters the sort of culturally ignorant caricatures you’d expect from Alan Ball’s broad satirical swipes at suburban banality.
Other than a few xenophobic insults, the film has little to do with Jasira’s ethnicity; rather, it’s an indictment of how young women are sexualised at an early age. So calling your pro-feminist critique Towelhead is false advertising and shock value born of desperation. And that’s still not the movie’s worst felony. That would be the inability to find a proper tone once Jasira’s next-door neighbour (Eckhart) becomes predatory.
It makes sense that the scenes are pitched between icky and titillating, but the lack of delicacy reduces everything to stock sordidness.
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