小石头

　　Lost in love, language and Littlerock.


　　Littlerock is a powerful intimate drama that captures the fears and desires of a young Japanese woman lost in America.


　　Rintaro (Rintaro Sawamoto) and Atsuko (Atsuko Okatsuka, who also co-wrote the script) are a Japanese brother and sister spending their summer traveling through the U.S. While on their way to San Francisco, their car breaks down in Littlerock, California, and they kill time with the local young drunks, touring the endless keggers that are the only entertainment in town. Atsuko speaks no English, and becomes the exotic center of attention in this isolated burg, deflecting advances by what seems like every available man in town. When love does come her way, she discovers that passion can be as fleeting as a visit abroad.


　　Directed by Mike Ott, Littlerock is an affectingly authentic portrait of the bittersweet pain of young love and the cruel reality of cultural miscommunication, making it one of the most emotionally moving American Independents in recent memory.


　　A sleepy Los Angeles exurb and its shiftless young residents are seen through the eyes of two Japanese tourists in this intimate evocation of a small town in Southern California where everyones talking but no one really understands.

导演老师的第一部长片，还挺有小情小调的。音乐挺好听～

人究竟为何出走？为何要出走舒适安稳的家来到远方？

兄妹俩去Manzanar（二战时期日本轰炸珍珠港后美国政府把在美国的10万日裔美国人全部迁移并关押的地方）寻找爷爷当年的痕迹。远在他乡，不同的文化，语言的障碍，沉迷在看似美好的乌托邦，某些友好的新朋友和家乡的混蛋旧友也毫无区别，他乡和故乡又有什么区别，但无论身在何处，友善就是沟通。★★★

三顆半。It's just a glass of water of life journey.