Barash

Coming of age films for teens have become predictable and stereotyped in recent years. And the boy meets girl, boy dumps girl (or girl dumps boy) theme has been done a hundred times. Ultimately, this film would have fallen into that predictable scenario, except for one issue; racism of Israelis for Arabs and Arabs for Israelis. As for the lesbian theme; it really does not make much of a difference; a hot romance and getting dumped is just as painful for lesbians as it is for heteros. The usual dysfunctional family is the setting for a teen's trip through early life decisions; most of them bad. Interesting for the insight of living in Israel with neighbors who constantly want to kill you, but are too weak and disorganized to do so. Insightful.