『The Lady (2011)』
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I'm going to write the review in English for this film because my mother would probably love to read since she's fan of this film. (My mother cannot read Japanese.)
The Lady is a 2011 French-British biographical film directed by Luc Besson, starring Michelle Yeoh as Aung San Suu Kyi.
Michelle Yeoh has always been my mother's favorite actress. Although I haven't watched all her shows, she's also one of my favorite actresses.
Indeed, she's really incredible, marvelous and stunning. She's also very hardworking and unique.
She put her soul in to the character she acts. She studies well. For this film, she even interviewed Aung San Suu Kyi!
She lost 8KG for this film!!! Hard work!!!
Michelle Yeoh has always been very slender but she wanted to look closer to Aung San Suu Kyi who has always been extremely slim, so she worked hard and achieved to lose 8KG... WOW.! Incredible.
As for the movie, it was really amazing. I'm glad I watched it...
I'm also glad I watched this before Christmas...(since it's quite a sad story...)
The movie has taught me the darker history of Burma which I did not have much knowledge on.
The movie has also made me re-realized the importance of “family-love” and “family-bond"...
I also put my self more in the position of the sons of Aung San Suu Kyi...
Aung San Suu Kyi was the daughter of Major General Aung San who led Burma to independence.
Her father and his colleagues were brutally assassinated by a group of armed men in 1947.
Suu Kyu later pursued her studies in England, then married to an amazing loving husband, Michael Aris.
Michael Aris was an English professor and historian who wrote and lectured on Bhutanese,Tibetan and Himalayan culture and history. They had two loving sons.
Their life seemed very normal and happy in England...
Yes.. she was just a normal happy house-wife.
I guess that part of her made me sympathized with her.
She was not politically ambitious although she had deep love for her own country and tremendous respect for her late father. She was also very humble, generous and polite. I guess that part of her came from her Buddhist belief. Also unlike Japan or USA, in their culture, it is very important to respect your own parents and older people. Actually that's my culture too. I'm American but I have root in Singapore and my mother's family is Buddhist. My mother has always taught me to respect the older people because they went through in life more than us and that made them greater than me. Also parents were the ones that gave life to me and with out them, there wouldn't be me from the start.
So it's always natural for me to respect my parents, teachers, professors and elder generation.
(well, of course there are exceptions. Some older people can be abusive or just extremely evil then there are exception...However, sometimes they are also just mentally ill so the heart of forgiveness is important before you judge them. Medical advices are needed often time.)
So my similar Buddhist background made me symmetrize with Aung San Suu Kyi.
However, her political career has been so astonishing that, it's something I respect very much but I will never understand... ( because if I were her, I would pick family with out a question over the country)
In 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi's life dramatically changed.
I would call this FAITH and DESTINY.
Her mother's poor health forced her to return to Burma...
It was very normal to do so...
I mean, unless you have bad relationship with your mother, most people would fly back to visit!!
So Suu Kyi did the same too...
But at that moment, her life unexpectedly changed..
Her late father, Aung San, was still widely remembered in Burma.
When she visited her mother in the hospital, she encountered many people who were wounded during the Tatmadaw's crackdown in the 8888 Uprising.
She was very shocked.
She helped the wounded and tried to do the best for them...
However, she still never wanted to be the leader of democratic party or anything.
She totally had no intention to get involved politically at that moment.
However, situation worsened.
With the desperate call from the democratic group, she realized that major political change was needed in Burma. She was soon drawn into the movement to promote reform. Her life changed.
Her husband supported her. Her sons respected her mission.
She accepted the role of icon in support of self-determination by the Burmese people and devoted herself to activities in support of goals of greater political freedoms, the dream that once her father had.
Suu Kyi founded a political party and won the 1990 elections. However, the Burmese military refused to accept the result of the election and moved to bring Suu Kyi under control!!
Again, situation worsened.
Suu Kyi and her family were separated when she was put under a house arrest for more than a decade.
I supposed that was very hard for Suu Kyi but even harder for her two sons and loving husband.
What made me impressed was her husband's supporting attitude towards her.
He missed her so much and he was very worried about her, yet he NEVER EVER once objected her actions (except the time she went on hunger-strike... yet what he did was amazing).
He was always very supportive and he understood her feelings so well. TRUE LOVE.
I bet it was harder for her two sons though...
They needed their mother...
They were only teenagers...
I would want my mother too, if I were them!!
Her husband Michel not only emotionally supported her but he was a man of action.
Yes, he was indeed really a man of action!!!
He worked hard in helping the world to recognize Suu Kyi's struggle...
Due to her family's efforts, she then became the second woman in Asia to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize( the first being was Mother Teresa of India in 1979)
Sadly, she was not able to attend the ceremony so her husband and her sons attended the ceremony.
Her elder son made a very touching speech on behalf of her...
Her life struggle still continued...
Michel was diagnosed with cancer...
She had to made hard extremely decision...
Family or country.
She could leave the country and go back to England to visit her dying husband, but she would not be bale to return on Burma anymore...
(If I were her, I would pick my husband and family right away but again, if I were her, I would not even be politician from the first place...she's extraordinary...)
Her husband Michael knew her so well.
He asked her not to come back...
He understood her till the very end....
Michael passed away on his birthday...
27th of March 1946... aged 53...
R.I.P. Michael Vaillancourt Aris
Today, Aung San Suu Kyi is still the political leader of Burma...
She has dedicated her life for Burma...
