The Lady - Aung San Suu Kyi.
"The Lady" is a worshipful film about the Myanmar opposition leader , Aung San Suu Kyi by Luc Besson. Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese dissident and pro- democracy leader who is now the opposition leader of Burma. The film follows Suu Kyi's long journey towards Burma's Democracy, the years she spent under house arrest, her message of nonviolence in the face of a violently repressive regime, and the sacrifices she made for her political passion. Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi was played by Michelle Yeoh and referred to as Suu in the movie. The movie starts with a scene which depicts the death of Suu’s father, Aung San, a nationalist hero, who was assassinated by rivals in the Burmese army in 1947, when his daughter(Suu) was a child. Aung San Suu Kyi is first presented as a housewife and a scholar, wife of an academic, Michael Aris, who is a leading western scholar on Bhutanese, Himalayan and Tibetan culture. She gets a call that her mother is dyin...