Our Burmese Day

Lindsey Merrison, a film director in UK. Her mother, Sally Merrison who origins from Burmese but she denial her origins and always said that she is from Hempstead, London. When Lindsey found out the truth she decided to bring her mother and her uncle, Bill back to Myanmar and found the story.

The documentary has brings out the cultural of Myanmar through the history and memory of Sally and Bill but it is base on their personal point of view. When I was watching the documentary I really don't know the purpose of showing the documentary. This is all about someone that I didn't know, in addition, the main person, Sally didn't gave her support to her daughter and reject to answer the question with " it is a too complicated story to tell". The main person for the documentary didn't give the fully support and shame on her heritage; can the documentary fully show the idea to the audience? Lindsey is a clever director; she tried to fill up this vacancy with her uncle Bill who has same experiences with her mother and others interviewee who had participant in her mother life. When she can't get the following story from her mother, she tried to add the interview from other people. It's make the documentary more objective with other point of view.

What can make a person to denial her origins? There was the place that full of her childhood memory and the memory with her family, is it brings a lot of pain on her? When she back to the place that she stay before i think she is very excited even the place was different with before. She feels sad when she faced her dark memory such as Sally's mother had left her and she cried in the graveyard.

Sally despise the belief and the religious of Mynmar, she gave the grimace when she pass through the monk. Many things that Sally done have show us she felt displeasure on her heritage and the cultural of her origins, a big contrast between Sally and Uncle Bill.

The cultural and the heritage of our origins are the treasured for us; we will not shame and refuse origins because there is the place that gave us a lot of memory. Someone who refuse and feel shame on their origins, it's mean they get hurt from their origins until they acknowledge themselves are the people from other countries. May be all of us think that Sally feel displeasure on her root but this journey gave her a opportunity to affirmance herself with her origins. I think she will not regret some day because she had back to her hometown once in her life.