Reaction To Mongolian Ping Pong

Mongolian Ping Pong was a slower moving movie. I felt like there wasn't really a climax to it. I expected the boys to go on a bigger adventure to get to Beijing. Though I did enjoy watching to see what their life is like compared to ours.
     Their home was a round home made from wood with a canvas roof. Unlike here in the United States we live in square shaped homes. The families made their living off of there animals. They had horses, sheep and goats. To pay for the necessities they need or the luxuries they want. Whereas here we would use regular currency. They did have paper money but it seemed they used the animals for negotiating more often. Though unlike in The Weeping Camel you could see that the families had bee touched by modern seocity more often. One of the families had a motor scooter and one had a television. Also the man that came to them with the new objects would come to them in a truck.

  
    Near the end of this movie the older daughter is offered the chance to move to the city and be a dance group. The parents are weary about letting her go beacuse they need her to help around the house and care for the animals. Also this is the same time that their son will also go to the city and attend school. Which would cause the parents to be home alone. Though in the end they allow them to go to their respective places. Unlike here parents encourage their children to move out and become a independent person.
   This movie was good overall. I enjoyed it and it was a very good way to look at how people from more remote places live their lives, which in comparison to us is less modernized.