The Choice By Augus Macqueen: Film Analysis

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This World is a BBC international documentary series program which hosts the programs related to international current affairs documentaries. Aung San Suu Kyi - The Choice by Angus Macqueen is one of the documentary film which is premiered by This World, BBC in September 2012 and also it is being premiered in many international film festivals. In this documentary it captures the movement of Aung San Suu Kyi’s risky step into everyday politics of Burma. This film talks about the Suu Kyi’s extraordinary personal and political story (BBC Web Site, 2015). This film tells us about Aung San Suu Kyi, an oxford educated leader of Myanmar, who took a major role in the change of political system of Myanmar. She is an opposition
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He was a founder of communist party of Burma and was assassinated by the rivals in 1947 when she was two years old. Her mother Khin Kyi was a nurse and after the death of General Aung San, she became one of the prominent political leader of Burma. Khin Kyi also served as a Burmese Ambassador to India. Aung San Suu Kyi accompanied her mother to India. She continued her schooling at India and graduated with a degree in Politics from Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi in 1964. She continued her education at oxford with B.A degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics till 1969 where she met her husband Michael Aris. She live at USA working in United Nations, in Bhutan, worked for Royal Ministry for Foreign Affairs and in India. In 1973 she moved back to London with her family. She had two sons and she mostly assists her husband in research of Himalayan studies and she started writing her father’s autobiography. Back at Burma, there was a mounting political …show more content…
Everything were professionally routine with cent percent of perfection when applied to her daily activities. She is more seen to be as transformational leader. She could easily inspire her fellow Burmese citizens with a shared vision of the future for Burma. The shared vision is to bring about a change in Burma. Albeit, Burma was rich as a country, yet the citizens remained very poor. Aung San Suu Kyi is very clear about this and publicly announces the reason for Burmese being so poor as a result of the Government being down and weak (Macqueen, 2012). Aung San Suu Kyi has exposed throughout, a clear set of admirable values. This way, she could easily build trust between herself and the Burmese people at large. Her sacrifices for her nation are highly appreciable as she had committed to bring a change for Burma. The US Secretary of the State during that time, Hillary Clinton was so much inspired by Aung San Suu Kyi’s incredible commitment and steady efforts towards a designated target of Free Burma and refers to her as “An Authentic Leader” (Macqueen, 2012).
Indeed, as we encounter various other leadership qualities in Aung San Suu Kyi, she is more sponged with transformational nature. There is no doubt that she is a goal oriented leader and has been so perpetual at her conduct. The concept of Glass ceiling is in fact not at all a hindrance to her success. She is a role model as a feminine

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