The story revolves around the life of Mi, a free-spirited young woman in the very conservative 1940's Burmese society, and her many lovers. She drinks. She smokes. She thinks you're a joke. She's also traumatized, insecure, and very tired in life. She's like a butterfly ... a butterfly pinned to a cardboard. Will she risk tearing her delicate wings to free herself?
Myanmar
Myanmar
Add me to the list of Paing Phyo Thu's fans. She's a great actress.
And this is the first time I rated higher than 2 stars for the local films of my country.
This film is adapted from a classic novel which is written in my mother tongue. The novel is, in my opinion, very highly regarded due to its use of unreliable narrative to describe the title character "Mi" (pronounced as "Me" coincidently or purposely).
So, I think you might be confused a bit at the start by the side characters i.e. men, mentioning about "Mi" in their own narratives.
I think the film can capture most of the good parts of the novel. That's why I like this…
Everything is good but Ko Nay Ko Toe is so ဆိုဒ်ပိ
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I was 13 when I first read Mi, armed with absolutely zero media literacy. Back then, Mi was the ultimate maneater. A woman who defied societal norms, seduced men and then left them to wallow in their own misery. While there was some truth to that, rereading it recently made me realize how much I had misunderstood.
We experience Mi through U Thaw Swe’s eyes. Through the eyes of many, many men, who seem utterly incapable of perceiving anything beyond her beauty and the sheer audacity of her existence. And because they can’t make sense of her, they fear her. Which, to be fair, makes sense, considering the pitiful states they end up in after crossing paths with her. And…
I hate the fact that a film featuring Nay Toe almost made me cry.
Mi is the adaption of the classic Burmese novel of the same name. The main character Mi is a very free-spirited woman of her times who is frequently seen smoking, partying and hanging out with different companions. She would be asked her about her ethnicity and religion because she did not behave like a traditional Burmese woman of the times. Some men want to hang out with her just as she is while others think she is a damsel in distress who needs to be saved from herself. Despite their polarizing opinions of Mi, everyone still desires her.
I have to say I am really impressed by the film. The film is so stylish and well-executed that it is hard…
မီ ကိုချစ်တယ်ပြောတိုင်း မီ ကအမြဲပြုံးနေတယ်
မီ ကပြောတယ် မီ ကမချစ်တက်ဘူး၊မမုန်းတက်ဘူးတဲ့။
So I kept believing that this must be some political code especially after reading that the director/writer and the lead actress (married) were both in hiding in exile after the last coup. But then I see a review on here saying it is from a classic novel and is true to it and taking 'classic' to mean old, it seems that it is just a crappy story presumably written originally by a man and then put to film by a man.
Basically Mi is given very little agency other than her determination to keep smoking despite having TB - also 99.9% sure they knew TB was contagious, but no one seems to care about that. She has a little around…
Burmese Cinema at its finest
[1st Viewing on 5/12/20 at Luang Prabang Film Festival: Online Edition]
*when she acts like Mi*
I'm like Nay Toe, saying: 'I can fix her'
ကျွန်တော့်အနေနဲ့ ကြည်အေးရဲ့ မီစာအုပ်ကိုစွဲစွဲမြဲမြဲ မကြိုက်နှစ်သက်ခဲ့ပါဘူး။ ဒါပေမယ့် ဒါရိုက်တာဏကြီးဟာ မီ ဆိုတဲ့ဇာတ်ကောင်ကို စာအုပ်ထက်ပိုပြီးကွက်ကွက်ကွင်းကွင်းမြင်စေ ဂရုဏာသက်စေခဲ့ပါတယ်။
Girlies wanted to be mi so bad that they don't even know how to smoke and girlies is me 😭
