AMERICAN PASTIME
I totally saw something cool this weekend during my Sunday football watching binge. On the ESPN Classic channel (Ch 208 for Directv peeps), I spotted a film I saw at the Visual Communication Asian American Film Festival a few years back. The flick was called American Pastime. Anyone ever heard or seen it yet?
The story takes place at the Topaz War Relocation Camp in Utah in 1941. It was a camp which housed thousands of people during the Japanese American internment during World War II. The plot starts after the Executive Order 9066 that FDR signed. For those who don’t know about E.O. 9066, it was when the “government” got scared that the Japanese Americans were some sorta secret spies. And basically forced them to move out of their homes, live in a camp in the middle of the desert, with fences closing them in, with US Army soldiers patrolling it. WOW!
