Mongolian Ping Pong

a Forrest Gump

Going In:

I'm having a bit of a Forrest Gump moment coming into this film so I should show a picture to get off this tangent. All right I feel better now, time to focus on the Mongolian version. The movie Mongolian Ping Pong is set upon the backdrop of the vast Mongolian steppes. The story supposedly revolves around a boy who discovers a ping pong ball and from that discovery a quest ensues. Again, the setting leads me to believe that the kid lives out in the Mongolian "boonies" (now I think that most of Mongolia would be classified as "boonies" to an urban westerner like myself). But this rural setting allows the normalcy of a ping pong ball in western life a mythical, almost magical meaning to a run of the mill ping pong ball. Again the cast is predominately Mongolian in ancestry (again they look eerily related Genghis Khan), and unlike The Weeping Camel I have a feeling that this movie is going to be a bit more like a "traditional" movie (in the western sense), here's to learning more about the magic that is contained (if one looks hard enough) within a ping pong ball.

a Ping Pong Ball