Ping Pong

One night when I had nothing to do, found this movie lying around and decided to watch it. I came into it with very low expectations but those expectations were wrong.

The movie begins with a boy contemplating suicide on a bridge, and a cop is trying to talk him down. The cop tells him to be careful but the boy says “I can fly” and the police officer thinking he’s giving him positive reinforcement yells “You can fly!” and the boy jumps into the river.

The movie then goes through how that boy (Peko), and another boy (Smile) got to be friends, how another boy got to be Peko’s sworn enemy, and how both Peko and Smile leaned the way of Ping Pong.

Its years later, Smile, and Peko’s team have just lost badly in the year’s championship. Peko gets depressed, quits the team and tries to kill him self (beginning of movie). He washes up on shore, goes back to the woman who taught him Ping Pong, and practices his ass off to fulfill his dreams of going pro.

While this is happening Smile is challenged by Peko’s enemy (can?t remember his name) because he saw Smile beat Peko, and because of team rules, if there is a non-organized challenge as such and you lose you are kicked off the team. Smile kicks his ass, and whatshisface is kicked off his team, wanders around pissed, and beats some guy up.

Championships come around again, and whoever wins has the chance to go pro. Smile and Peko both fight their way to the top, and in the end Smile lets Peko win though Smile is actually the much better player because Smile doesn’t really like ping pong and knows that its Peko’s dream to go pro. Smile has only played to be around Peko.

The movie had great cinematography, oh and there were some VERY AWESOME metaphorical scenes that I do not want to get into. Overall, it was an excellent movie.