My two minute review

(Because any more time wasted on reviewing this would be futile.)

This was typical indie drivel, to be sure, but I think it's more about the Japanese girl's approach to people - and the men - of a different culture. I liked her charecter until about the halfway point, as she got "indoctrinated" into the White slacker culture of the Southwest, true poison to be sure.

Fitting in is a bitch, and she gets shoved into it by the filmmakers - what a disaster, she had some promise as an observer until the White boys came flitting around her.

The shame of it is they have to put in cheesy Schwinn bikes, long horrible acoustic guitar fueled cheesy indie music, and references to every twentysomething cheesy cliche you and I could think of.

I feel bad as it could have been better prepared if she didn't have to hear a Shins-lite soundtrack as she sat near the trains under the overpass doing nothing, walking around with her brother - who the film almost completely ignores at a few points, by the way - doing nothing, etc.

This is like the film "Walkabout" for the Ray Ban eyeglasses set, and indie types of all ages, but without the true angst of a real culture clash, and instead the filmmakers throwing all the characters into a box and shaking them around a bit.

Shame on them for that.

1 1/2 stars at best.