The British East India Company seized control of the administration of Myanmar after three Anglo-Burmese Wars in the 19th century, and the country became a British colony. The early 19th-century Konbaung dynasty ruled over an area that included modern Myanmar and briefly controlled Manipur and Assam as well. In the 16th century, reunified by the Taungoo dynasty, the country became the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia for a short period. The Pagan Kingdom fell to Mongol invasions, and several warring states emerged. In the 9th century, the Bamar people entered the upper Irrawaddy valley, and following the establishment of the Pagan Kingdom in the 1050s, the Burmese language, culture, and Theravada Buddhism slowly became dominant in the country. Įarly civilisations in the area included the Tibeto-Burman-speaking Pyu city-states in Upper Myanmar and the Mon kingdoms in Lower Myanmar. The country's capital city is Naypyidaw, and its largest city is Yangon (Rangoon). Myanmar is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest. It is the largest country in Mainland Southeast Asia, and has a population of about 54 million as of 2017. Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar ( Burmese: ပြည်ထောင်စု သမ္မတ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်, ), formerly Burma, is a country in Southeast Asia.
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This is a very well made movie that's worth checking out.You may need rendering support to display the Burmese script in this article correctly. Any viewer seeking a purely robust, invigorating lesbian romance may be put out, but an audience receptive to more subdued, thoughtful experiences will be right at home.
Even so, the title stands on its own merit: 'Our love story' is a testament to swell writing, directing, and acting - a breath of fresh air in a genre where one feature commonly echoes another. It's unfortunate to read after the fact of the filmmaker's tawdry history - it rather puts a blemish on such a broadly satisfying feature, a strong debut that indicated great potential. If not the most captivating screenplay in the world, Hyun-ju has written a solid, complete tale, actualized as a lovely, low-key picture. The technical craft is superb, and I quite enjoy the soft, sparing music that dots the soundtrack. But it's nonetheless unmistakable as a partner to dominant cultural heteronormativity that's projected throughout, a theme that looms like a pale specter over the story. This includes not least of all the hardship that comes from the pressure to be discreet - homophobia presents subtly, with the same air of disapproval as though of any disfavored relationship. From the beginning the characters appear very dissimilar, but as the film rolls on and they both struggle through varied, conflicting emotions, we see how very alike they actually are. They are great scene partners, and whether individually or together make every moment of love or angst very believable. Stars Lee Sang-hee and Ryu Sun-young are both fine actresses who capably realize Yoon-ju, Ji-soo, and all their complexities. This is much more about the simple trajectory of a relationship, with all its ups and downs, and the personal difficulties that flow from and contribute to such turmoil. Film-maker Lee Hyun-ju doesn't employ the sort of tropes we commonly expect in films centering lesbian characters - there are no overtly romantic flourishes overlaid to embellish the feature. And that's really the key: the narrative comes across very much as a down-to-earth, quiet portrait of the connection between two people. True, I think the onset of the relationship between the main characters seems inorganic and unconvincing - but then, I suppose there's something to be said for how messy such interactions can be in real life, too.
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