Audience Member
Extraordinary movie, the best we have seen in a long long time!!!!
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/01/23
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Audience Member
We are given a gentle, touching narrative of the Myanmar people, largely a Buddhist nation which had an authoritarian government and lacks severely in education and human rights. Many children who were asked said they only had 1 or 2 years of school. No one can afford it. Child labor and the trafficking of young girls is heavy. And as in other countries in the area, there are hundreds of cultures and many different languages. It is hard to bring a country together that has so many different ethnicities, cultures, and potentially values. We get an informative glimpse at the past 80 years of Myanmar's history, environmental challenges, living conditions, and citizen's perspectives. My main complaint with this documentary may be an unjust one, but it felt a bit limited in the same way that a person's vacation footage only narrowly covers the country they explored. But since cameras were forbidden during the time of this production, the limitation is understandable, and Director Lieberman does provide a nice interview with an admirable and hopeful voice of democracy - only this politician, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, had been under house arrest for 15 years at the time of the film's production. Since then, some promising governmental moves have taken place and she has been released and elected into parliament. Her party, National League for Democracy, won 43 of the 45 seats available during the 2012 by-elections, after being unbanned just the year before.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/23/23
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thomas a
An insightful documentary into Burma, "They Call It Myanmar" provides an in-depth look into the daily lives of this most reclusive Southeast Asian nation. It shows how, despite the hardship and political oppression, the people of Burma are able to withstand all that with a smile. And at the end of the documentary, the audience are left not just to wonder about whether the Burmese people have gotten enough help from Western countries. We are also left with a hope, because even in the darkest of places, there are communities and groups of people who can always find a reason to smile.
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
03/30/23
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Audience Member
fascinating, heartbreaking
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
02/11/23
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Audience Member
Excellent overview of a wonderful people and beautiful country. Some of the things in the film are already dated, because much has changed over the past couple of years. However, the core issues raised about education, healthcare, and poverty are still highly relevant. The historical background on Burma and the overview of Burmese Buddhism is also great.
I only wish the author could have spent more time investigating and reporting on the even more desperate plight of the ethnic minorities - the Chin, Kachin, etc.
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02/13/23
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Audience Member
A well-balanced documentary of a beautiful country, with beautiful people. Not overly political or sensationalized, and covers the geography, culture, religion, politics and realities of a country that we really know little about. It's now on my list of places to travel to.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
01/30/23
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