My Name is Yu Ming: Are You Talking to Me?Short Foreign Film Review

What language, do you suppose would be spoken in Ireland? Would it be their Mother tongue? Gaelic? Or the Queen's English? This phenomenon is explored in this short foreign film from Ireland. "My name is Yu Ming." is about a bored Chinese shopkeeper Yu Ming, longing for a better life. He visits the library after work, one day in order to do something different than just go home and do nothing. Once at the library, Yu Ming steps up to the library call desk and as he waits for the librarian he notices a large globe sitting on the desk. He stares at the globe for a second before spinning it and closes his eyes. His finger lands on tall black letters that later we find spells out Ireland. Yu Ming takes a large blue and yellow book and opens a page to the green Isle of Ireland. He traces his finger down the page to find that the language spoken in Ireland is Gaelic.

That is when, Yu Ming decides to leave China and go live in Dublin Ireland. But first he must learn this foreign language. He checks out the large book on Ireland despite the librarian's confused sour look and goes to learn Gaelic. It is an ironic scene, in the film when we see Yu Ming at a fast food noodle restaurant with headphones perched on his head as he struggles to say, "My name is Yu Ming," In Gaelic aloud while he dines on his noodles.