In Chinese culture or i believe in any other cultures, it is essential for us as the younger generation for not forgetting our own root. For who we are and where we are from, i was brought up and taught to bare that in my mind no matter where i am and where i go.
'Our Burmese Day' is the documentary about a lady named Lindsey Merrison, along with her mother, Sally and her brother, Bill from England go back to her mother's homeland, Burma. She is trying to figure out the truth and the reason behind why her mother is hiding from them about her own root and heritage. For almost 40 years, Lindsey growing up for not knowing her mother is an Anglo-Burmese root. As what Bill says in the film which i quite agree with, "There is no big truth about life, just a series of discoveries."
From the documentary, i could understand how it feels like for not knowing our own background until we found out the truth, perhaps from someone else instead from those who we are close with, which of course, hurts more. The journey of traveling back to the hometown, to the root and where they were from is definitely an eye-opening one. Among one of them is the discovery of a sexual relationship in between a maid, Bill and their father. Secrets, affairs, lies, confusion are all a big curiosity to Lindsey. She feels that she is hidden behind all these chaos and she has to find out one by one no matter what.
It will be the first time in 40 years that Sally and her brother Bill have seen their homeland. Part of it is quite touching and we can see from their eyes when they expressed on how they actually remembered things back then.
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