Ala "American Beauty" this new Indie-Film, (based on a novel called "Towelhead" by Alicia Erian), shows this Older dude having sex with a much younger girl -- (played by the 19-year-old actress, Summer Bishil)...'Shocked that Fox News already called it: "feel-awful," -- but, this New Alan Ball flick ("Nothing Is Private") -- 'played at the Toronto Film Festival has some folks buzzing...and we found it sorta funny that it really upset the Fox News reviewer (beyond all belief):
"Nothing Is Private -- is the feel-awful movie of 2007...Its graphic depiction of sexual, mental and physical child abuse that verges quite literally on kiddie porn...Too much is shown and too many lines are crossed for "Nothing Is Private" ever to be released by a major studio or distribution company to theatres. If nothing else, the endless "ick" factor involving nearly every character is a permanent obstacle."
-- Methinks Thou Doth Protest Too Much...um, reality check please, facts show that teenagers are having sex...'maybe we could hide that under all the Larry Clark DVD's.
The website ain't it cool (in contrast) said this: "The sex is never salacious, but it's frank portrayal is bound to enrage those with knee-jerk negative responses to anything that even smells of it."
You decide for yourself...unless Fox News has it's way:
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 12:25.
Roger Friedman never even saw the film in question. There were so many factual errors in his review it was apalling - references to incidents which never occured (sodomy) and complete mischaracterizations of characters. For one example, the father in the film is NOT Iraqi, as he states, but Lebanese, and the film actually takes great pains to mention that numerous times. Anyone who came out of that film thinking Rifat was Iraqi must have slept through it. He even spelled the name of the lead character incorrectly - it's "Jasira" not "Jazeera"" - though I suppose over at FOX they were looking to make some allusion to "Al Jazeera" just to stir things up.
Friedman is the sort of "critic" who will pan a film without having seen it simply because the very subject matter or word-of-mouth regarding it makes him uncomfortable. It's a bit like trashing "Deep Impact" because you're vehemently opposed to comets hitting the earth.
"A movie is not good because it arrives at conclusions you share, or bad because it does not. A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it: about the way it considers its subject matter, and about how its real subject may be quite different from the one it seems to provide."
- Roger Ebert
Roger Friedman never even
Roger Friedman never even saw the film in question. There were so many factual errors in his review it was apalling - references to incidents which never occured (sodomy) and complete mischaracterizations of characters. For one example, the father in the film is NOT Iraqi, as he states, but Lebanese, and the film actually takes great pains to mention that numerous times. Anyone who came out of that film thinking Rifat was Iraqi must have slept through it. He even spelled the name of the lead character incorrectly - it's "Jasira" not "Jazeera"" - though I suppose over at FOX they were looking to make some allusion to "Al Jazeera" just to stir things up.
Friedman is the sort of "critic" who will pan a film without having seen it simply because the very subject matter or word-of-mouth regarding it makes him uncomfortable. It's a bit like trashing "Deep Impact" because you're vehemently opposed to comets hitting the earth.
"A movie is not good because it arrives at conclusions you share, or bad because it does not. A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it: about the way it considers its subject matter, and about how its real subject may be quite different from the one it seems to provide."
- Roger Ebert