
TECHNICAL 1.FICHA
Director: John Boorman
Cast: Patricia Arquette (Laura Bowman) U Aung Ko (U Aung Ko), Frances McDormand (Andy Bowman), Adelle Lutz (Aung San Suu Kyi), Spalding Gray (Jeremy Watt), Tiara Jacquelina (San San), Jit Murad (Sein Htoo), John Cheach (Min Han)
Year: 1995
Country: Great Britain
Production: Barry Spikins, Eric Pleskow to Pleskow / Spiking
Plot: Based on a true story
Writer: Alex Lasker and Bill Rubenstein
Music: Hans Zimmer. BSO:
Milan Photo: John Seale
Art Direction: Anthony Pratt
Editor: Ron Davis
Duration: 99 minutes
Genre: Drama political.
2.SINOPSIS
The plot you can present the situation in Burma is set in 1988. Laura (Patricia Arquette), an American doctor, has just lost her son and her husband, killed at home by a burglar. sister takes her in an organized tour to Burma, with the desire to distract her from her obsessive grief. A sleepless night, defying the curfew, Laura goes for a walk around town and you run into a political demonstration, which includes snatched, especially by the haunting presence of Aung San Suu Kyi, the main democracy leader, would receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. The immediate military crackdown begins Laura intense adventure beyond Rangoon, where you will find a new meaning to his life broken, an ideal, and the generous and medical welfare of others.
3. WHY "Beyond Rangoon " IS A FILM CAREER? NOTES FOR THE ENTERTAINER.
The political situation that exists in Burma these days is present in the media. However, the dictatorship has its beginnings in 1962 while many sometimes unknown to the Western world. This now gives us the opportunity to Beyond Rangoon, a film with deep values \u200b\u200bbased on the historical vocation of August 1988, a social revolution that failed to bring democracy desired.
Laura is a woman who has gone to Burma after the murder of her husband and son. A woman who is looking for answers, some answers would seem that the more you will find engaging and getting into the social context. 1988, Burma is a country that lives a struggle for justice, freedom and democracy against dictatorship.
Laura is going through a process be giving throughout the film and goes through a clearly distinguishable stages: the first shows a desire to know Burma in a way different from what they do for tourists. Find some risk, wanting to go places even banned. In a second time when he could get out of a difficult situation to return to her country, she witnesses the abuse you receive your guide and the death of one of his students who have risked to help. She turns and gets involved to save the guide. Finally, decide to stay practicing as a doctor in a refugee camp who have crossed the border with Thailand. Thus John Boorman, the director, presents both the chaos outside the country as living inside the character.
could say that their involvement is being done by osmosis, ie, contagion. Laura knowing Aung San Suu Kyi, and her way of dealing with the soldiers do mourn with emotion. The testimony of former students of your guide you out of your inner pain. These are ingredients that are helping to make Laura internal restructuring to integrate into his life, suffering and death will have to let your child "leave" but feels his company anyway and strength. Laura, who was seeking an answer to your life, is when she makes her own response to the cry of freedom, justice and suffering in Burma.
Throughout the film there are many details and scenes full of meaning. Select two. The first refers to the visit of Laura makes a Buddhist monastery. She accuses the monks to avoid life with denials as " not fall in love, have no children ." The scene invites us to reflect on the picture displayed by the religious life in today's world. The other scene is a profound dialogue of Laura and U Aung Ko (representing his own role in real life). The tour guide becomes a spiritual guide and Laura is helping to understand the meaning of suffering, struggle and life even using arguments of Buddhism. It is an open dialogue to see two times.
no doubt that in Beyond Rangoon vocational elements found as the search for meaning in life after living moments of death and suffering, the struggle for justice, nonviolence, the value of example, the service committed in response to the suffering of others. All wrapped in a beautiful soundtrack.
4.material FOR FILM WORK
not often that a film has a strong connection with reality. So from what should we get for the media to know the reality of Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi, a woman who received the Nobel Prize Peace in 1991. I offer these Websites:
- http://www.birmaniainfo.org perfect place to meet the country's current political and social statistics, life and quotes from Suu Kyi.
- http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/a/aung_san_suu.htm biography of Suu Kyi
- http: / / web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ESLASA160121991? open & of = ESL-MMR press release from Amnesty International to mark the Nobel Peace Prize SuuKyi
- http://www.elmundo.es/documentos/2003/04/guerras_olvidadas/birmania.html Web World dedicated to "forgotten wars." It has good links
- http://www.icftu.org/www/pdf/brief_BurmaSP.pdf dossier "Burma: the horror of power" prepared by The World Association ( 2003)
- what movie scene impressed you most? Why?
- what resemblance between what is seen in the film, which occurred in 1988, and what we see now in the media? What differences do you appreciate?
- what process inside Laura lives along the film?
- what people, situations have influenced him?
- what response is to accept the death of her husband and son?
- what is presented to Suu Kyi? What did you know it?
4.2.Nos
challenges-after seeing the film, how you understand the situation that exists in Burma?
- what can you do?
-like Laura, we all seek answers to our lives. What are the questions that have not found an answer?
- what you look like Laura?
- what people have given you an example of life that has appreciated or admired?
- what situations in your town, neighborhood, city ... they're calling and calling for serious and determined? What is your response?
yourself in the skin of Laura and write a prayer to God.
4.3.
pray-appropriate songs and known by the group
-Prayer for Vocations:
Lord Jesus,
Shepherd of our souls, you continue calling
your
look of love so many and so many young
difficulties living in the world today:
open your mind to hear from so many voices that resonate
around,
your distinctive voice, smooth and powerful,
also repeated today: "Come, follow me" ;
moves the heart of our youth to the generosity
and make it
sensitive to the expectations of the brothers who ask
solidarity and peace, truth and love.
Call them with your goodness, to attract them to you.
turn it on with your sweetness, to welcome you.
Send them with your truth, to keep you.
(Juan Pablo II)
"earnestly seek to discover what are called, and then begin to do it passionately. This clean look forward toward the realization of itself, is a measure of human life. " ( Martin Luter King )
-Word of God: The Good Samaritan (Lk 10:25-37)
-time of silence and personal reflection
-You are invited to voluntary prayer to pray they have written. Laura is not the protagonist
which reads, but us.
-Father-final Canto