Revelations of Pepsi

The advertisement begins with a young boy, assumed to be of American nationality, who arrives at a Chinese monastery. He knocks on the monastery door, which has a symbol of a circle containing another circle, a square and a crescent. An elder monk lets him in and walks him through the monastery as others look on, all whom have the monastery symbol on their forehead. The music is somber and sets the mood for what the young boy faces. He is taken in by the monks and undergoes training that is tough and rigorous. The boy is having trouble and when frustration takes over he drops his head. However, when he rises it becomes apparent that years have passed by and the young boy is now a young man.

He performs skilled martial arts tasks with ease and has become a martial arts master. His reward is a Pepsi and drinks one with the other monks. When finished, the monks look at him as he looks upon the monastery symbol on the foreheads of the other monks. Then it hits him, the symbol of the monks is the top of the Pepsi can. He smashes his head into the can crushing it and causing the symbol to be branded on his forehead. That is when the whole meaning of the commercial is revealed. It is funny, well to me, that all the monks in the monastery are centered on Pepsi. The monks rise and cheer and laugh when the young man realizes what the symbol is centered on. This caused me to laugh because it is funny that after all of his hard work and training Pepsi was the revelation to the monk and his joy was that in Pepsi as well. The commercial is saying that after hard work that the best reward is a refreshing Pepsi.