{"id":403,"date":"2009-02-13T00:32:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T07:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=403"},"modified":"2009-02-13T00:32:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T07:32:28","slug":"things-meant-to-make-you-go-hmm-that-instead-make-you-sigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/02\/13\/things-meant-to-make-you-go-hmm-that-instead-make-you-sigh\/","title":{"rendered":"things meant to make you go hmm that instead make you sigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2200029\/\">Dana Stevens<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Provocative without being thoughtful, Towelhead is an exercise in button-pushing that seems unsure of what it wants to say (except to assert, correctly, that being a sexually abused biracial teenager in suburban Houston would really, really suck).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The good guys, the bad guys, the victim, the perp: all are stereotypes. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/movies\/display?display=movie&#038;id=11513\">Ty Burr<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ball&#8217;s trying to be honest about adolescent coming of age, but since he&#8217;s dishonest about everything else, the movie collapses in on itself, ending with a laughably pat resolution that renders &#8220;Towelhead&#8221; a Bizarro World &#8220;After School Special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bishil gives a touching performance in the circumstances, but it&#8217;s hard to play a confused character when the director&#8217;s just as confused as you are. Both nymphet and victim, Jasira wanders through Ball&#8217;s cracked America like an Arab-American Little Annie Fanny, as exploited behind the camera as she is in front of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana Stevens: Provocative without being thoughtful, Towelhead is an exercise in button-pushing that seems unsure of what it wants to say (except to assert, correctly, that being a sexually abused biracial teenager in suburban Houston would really, really suck). The good guys, the bad guys, the victim, the perp: all are stereotypes. Ty Burr: Ball&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}