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Little Boy Danny Lyon Little Boy, 1977, New Mexico, color, 54 minutes named for the atomic bomb built in New Mexico and dropped on Hiroshima, Lyon's picture of present day New Mexico -- a look beneath the Sunbelt. "Little Boy
is a powerful and moving film depicting the harsh realities of
Indian and Chicano life in New Mexico." "Little Boy
is a kind of grand summa, Lyon's epic view of America focused
through the lens of contemporary New Mexico. Its bleak, man-made
environment is superimposed uneasily on a harsh, unforgiving landscape,
and explosively charges with clashing subcultures. . . robust,
pulsating with energy, but also clouded by a kind of doomed fatality.
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