This film features a new actor carrying the emotions of a 13 year old boy navigating puberty and the terrors and travails of high school. His path is complicated by his Pakistani heritage but his awkwardness and determination comes to a resolution that is genuine.
This emotional story is not the usual path seen in many films. Where some coming of age films produce strong emotions from a booming soundtrack this movie finds a gentler and authentic method.
This is the American experience for so many immigrants. While assimilation should not mean cultural annihilation, it does require evolution. The strictures of a Muslim upbringing somehow comes to terms with the humanity of learning how to be oneself.
This emotional story is not the usual path seen in many films. Where some coming of age films produce strong emotions from a booming soundtrack this movie finds a gentler and authentic method.
This is the American experience for so many immigrants. While assimilation should not mean cultural annihilation, it does require evolution. The strictures of a Muslim upbringing somehow comes to terms with the humanity of learning how to be oneself.