I caught Ping Pong Playa this week via Netflix. I highly recommend it to all the Chinese and Taiwanese Americans. It's a satire of the Chinese/Taiwanese community in the Los Angeles area. At least, it felt very familiar to me, except the whole Chinatown and Chinese Community Center parts.
The movie is about a Chinese American named Chris. The 2nd son of a Chinese American household. Chris is not the model "Chinese-American" as he cannot hold a job, never finished college and speaks "gangsta" all the time. Chris's parents own and run a ping pong store and the mom teaches a ping pong class at the Chinese community Center in town. When Chris's mom gets into a car accident, it forces Chris to step in and run the ping pong class. It's a coming of age story for Chris from that point on.
I liked the movie quite a bit. I could relate to the "environment" and atmosphere the director, Jessica Yu was trying to set up. Which is to make a "typical" Chinese American (2nd generation, 1.5) life look like in part.
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