Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on February 9, 2010 – 1:02 AMNo Comment
The story Burma VJ tells is fascinating, and shocking and enraging.As a movie, alas, it comes across as muffled, because…well, it’s reporting from a closed country.Thanks to a repressive government, the footage is smuggled out of Burma and goes to Oslo, then doubles back to Burma via the BBC and other outlets; it’s hard to give second- and thirdhand mini-cam footage much texture, in bulk, and the attempt can seem unfortunately amateurish.
I’d recommend reading up on the events covered by and surrounding the movie instead.
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