Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Mike B I knew very little about Myanmar prior to watching this film, but learnt much from it. It shows vividly how a military dictatorship can brutally suppress demonstrators who want to have more human rights and freedoms. This occurs in front of our eyes as brave camera people clandestinely film the "freedom movement" demonstrations. We see that as more and more people rally to the cause, the government and military react severely to suppress the manifestations, showing no tolerance whatsoever to their people. At the end of the documentary we learn that several of the camera people were arrested and their current whereabouts are unknown. Watch the special features for interviews with monks who bravely participated in the rallies and another short film on the civil war in Myanmar. If you are from a democratic country like myself, you realize how fortunate you are.

TheDocHierarchy Its 1988 in Burma. Students are leading a series of vociferous protests against the military junta. Years of economic mismanagement have been compounded by the sudden cancelling of some of the nation's currency notes - savings held in cash are instantly wiped out. The shooting of an engineering student in March leads only to louder and larger protests; a young woman by the name of Aung San Suu Kyi becomes the face of the democracy movement. Then, on September 18, the Army steps in - over 3,000 are killed or disappeared in one afternoon.Fast forward to 2007, and Joshua, the underground reporter and narrator of Ostergaard's 'Burma VJ' is getting deja vu. Economically on its knees, with high unemployment, rising inflation and subsidies being cut, and politically running out of options, the Burmese people are suffering. As one of a number of journalists working illegally for the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), a television and radio network-in-exile (based in Norway), Joshua risks his freedom and life to document conditions inside the country under the despotic rule of the junta. Once smuggled out of the country, images and videos are edited and streamed back into Burma via radio networks, or passed onto international news networks to raise awareness.In late 2007, Joshua and his DVB colleagues noticed a shift in popular opinion. The fears of a recurrence of 1988 were subsiding, a combination of the natural amnesia of time and the desperation of quotidian life. Small, isolated protests were occurring. They were quickly broken up by the junta's 'thugs' but not before being captured by the diligent DVB reporters. Then, and most famously, the monks took to the streets; occupying a precious place in Burmese and Buddhist society, monks are not to be harmed and therefore presented a literal human shield for the thousands of Burmese citizens who took to the streets to protest alongside them.The bloody conclusion to the uprising thereafter is well-known, as is the infamous execution-like shooting of the Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai. What Ostergaard adds to the saga however is to point out the courage of those behind the footage (it was a DVB reporter that captured the Nagai shooting for example, from a nearby building), who risk their lives so that the bravery of those protesting is not lost with the first firing of the army's guns. The 2007 uprising, however brutally put down, was a defeat for the junta due almost entirely to the reporting of DVB reporters, like Joshua, who put themselves in positions similar to Nagai in order to document the democratic desire of their people.Concluding Thought: Hard to know who to admire more, the monks willing to die for the sake of their people, or the reporters willing to die to document it.

razmatazern I saw this movie at SXSW last year, and it really interested me because my mom and her side of the family is from Burma. I knew that there were problems going on in Burma, but I wasn't really familiar with any more details regarding the problems. Watching the footage made me feel as though I was watching something that I wasn't allowed to watch, and I wanted everybody to watch and learn what was going on in Burma. Everybody should be able to record and document what is going on in life, and I really appreciate Anders Østergaard going out and making a film about the problems in Burma. After watching the movie, I felt so much more educated about the subject. I wanted to learn more about it, and I wanted my mom and the rest of my huge family to watch it. I told everyone about it, and it was definitely my favorite documentary at SXSW 2009...and probably of the whole year. I'm so glad that it received an Oscar nomination, and I really think it should have won.

zalish I had a great chance to watch this documentary about the Journalism under an oppression in Burma at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2008(IDFA). It's not only that the awfulness of the situation in Burma (in example:the political oppression, violence and lack of freedom) that leaves you breathless but also the effort of the reporter, whose face is never seen during the documentary, in order to be seen and heard. After watching it, you will for sure find yourself thinking over the brave journalists who risk their lives to tell their stories, to tell the world the truth which is standing there stuck between the walls that covers the country.An impressive documentary, and also a must seen one!