freeOK概要：Mike may always be wandering, but it's hard to call him a person in action. His stamping yard is small, a suburb between his mother's home in New Jersey and the pizza shop where he works. Mike is not a very talkative person and is not good at guidance. He would rather let things happen than let them happen on his own. Feeding a neighbor's dog, bumping into a friend, watching a hockey game: all of these are different reasons for trekking on the same cold street, calm, clumsy, and lonely. One day, the opportunity came. Mike ran into his old classmate Mark and asked him to take over his hiking job and apartment in Philadelphia during his trip to Poland. Changes in seasons, scenes, and destiny? The streets Mike is strolling on now are different, sunny, but beyond that, it's an ancient story: new people and new encounters, mixed with usual awkwardness and laziness. Ted Fendt's charming 35mm miniature is neither a comedy nor a drama, but a moral story: it's a lesson that anything that falls on your lap can easily fall out again. We can change our environment, but we cannot change ourselves. berlinale 2016
