More Hollywood Sickness - the movie Towelhead

Dirty Harry's Place ^ | July 24th, 2008 | Dirty Harry

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DHP Review: Towelhead

Posted by Dirty Harry on Thursday, July 24th, 2008

During the Q&A, after a sneak preview of Towelhead, writer/director Alan Ball said of child rape, “Society wants us to believe that’s a soul destroying event, I don’t believe that.” The context of such an incendiary statement is important and can be found in his film, the story of a thirteen year old Arab girl, Jasira, (Summer Bishil) who‘s raped by her Army Reservist next door neighbor (Aaron Eckhart), molested by her mother‘s boyfriend, and sexually manipulated by Thomas (Eugene Bradley), a young man she goes to school with. When it’s all over, not only is her soul intact but she suffers no emotional or psychological damage whatsoever. To quote Ball, the “experience makes her stronger.” She’s empowered sexually (at 13) and the film ends on what’s meant to be a triumphant note when she decides on a relationship with Thomas.

[Borges]

Alan Ball wrote ‘American Beauty’ and a bunch of episodes of ‘Queer As Folk’

[thefactor]

jeez, i really likED aaron eckhart.

[pcottraux]

Yeesh.

[Charlespg]

The koran animals and this idiot deserve each other

[HoosierHawk]

It's got "Academy Award Winner" written all over it.

Another one I'll never see.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Mindlss rape and sex, a young girl. Sounds like the movie “Candy” from the 60’s. All it would need is a sound track from Steppenwolf. Some things never change.

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[Proud_USA_Republican]

I’m sure the reviews and the academy awards that will nominate it for best picture will say its, “dark, thought provoking, and has nuance”.

And then it will proceed to bomb at the box office and hollyweird will claim its all because of the vast right-wing conspiracy.

[kb2614]

And then it will proceed to bomb at the box office and hollyweird will claim its all because of the vast right-wing conspiracy.

Depends how they market it. If its marketed as a anti-war flick, it will bomb. If its marketed as middle aged men banging a hot young piece of underaged tail, it might do well. If you think cynically, its not that hard to figure out how Hollywood will market it. They are pretty dumb these days, so.........

[Keith Brown]

Alan Ball cant seem to make a movie w/o insulting the military.

How disgusting.

[Charlespg]

And then it will proceed to bomb at the box office and hollyweird will claim its all because of the vast right-wing conspiracy

And Claim that this crap is protected by the Bill of Rights

[RedRover]

Terry Southern, RIP.

[A_perfect_lady]

I was reading the description and thought “sounds like American Beauty.” He always has to denigrate the military.

[donna]

Roman Polanski will love it.

[TigersEye]

Sounds like it’s made to order for pedophiles.

[TC Rider]

I thought there was a Towelie ban?

[John Williams]

Here, we have a borderline-porn flick with a storyline attached to it, involving:

- Politically-correct victim/heroine
- Casting of patriotic persons as “evil” through them performing acts of sexual violence/manipulation
- Promotion of liberals (the hippy neighbors) as “the good guys”
- Promotion of “sex = EMPOWERMENT” without even glancing at its consequences
- Copious amounts of gratuitous sexual content via an age-inappropriate channel

It’s the perfect “edgy” lib film, produced by libs and one that’ll be secretly enjoyed by the NAMBLA sect. It’s little wonder it won’t be but a pepper speck on the box office charts. Karma would be yet another blockbuster action flick knocking this disingenuous bit of pr0n into insignificance.

“When it’s all over, not only is her soul intact but she suffers no emotional or psychological damage whatsoever. To quote Ball, the “experience makes her stronger.” She’s empowered sexually (at 13) and the film ends on what’s meant to be a triumphant note when she decides on a relationship with Thomas.”

The reality isn’t sexual empowerment, but the use of sex as a means of reestablishing a sense of control over one’s own body, with drug abuse added in as self-medication to numb down the emotional pain of it all.

In the real world, not only would Jasira be dealing with the “nonexistent” repercussions of such abuse, but she’ll also be haunted by the very real prospect of her being killed by the male members of her family if they happen to be relatively devout Muslims, since she has stained her family’s “honor” by being sexually abused by infidels.