Debbie Schlussel: Movie About Arab Daughter in U.S. Paints Americans as Cold, Abusive, Pedophile Soldiers
As I've repeatedly noted, August is well known as the cemetery for bad movies. If a movie debuts then, it means that studios and theater owners expect it to die a quick death.
And August is when "Towelhead" debuts. I haven't yet seen this creepy movie about Jasira, the 13-year-old daughter of an Arab and a cold, slutty American chick. But it features such "delightful" scenes as the father taking his daughter to buy tampons and discussing "flow." GUH-ROSS.
Then, there is the way the Americans treat this Arabic girl. A neighbor, an American military reservist, is a pedophile who essentially rapes (and sodomizes) her. Her mother is a mean, uncaring person, whose second husband also abused Jasira. It seems the only thing accurate in this movie is that her father is upset she's dating a Black guy. We'll see how accurate it gets, as in, does he honor-kill her, like Sarah and Aminah Said? Here's the trailer and a clip ("Sharmuta" means whore, but the word in Arabic is far more offensive than "whore"):
Just so you know, actress Summer Bishil, who plays the wronged Arab daughter in this movie also plays the wronged Muslim daughter in another anti-American movie slated for the August cinema cemetery, "ICE The Movie," a/k/a "Crossing Over."
Posted by Debbie on July 21, 2008 01:02 PM to Debbie Schlussel