Lut Sein Win - Youth and Love

Chapter 1

University and love

Every time I read book reviews and movie reviews in magazines today, I see reviews that mostly focus on novels and movies labeled as romantic.

I say it's fun because in stories and movies, when a boy and a girl meet, they easily fall in love, easily fall in love, easily break up, and easily get back together. It's hard to even think about whether they're having fun or not.

If you look at today's movies and TV shows, you'd be a little scared to send your daughter to university. All you see is them dating after they get to university. Don't they have any other jobs besides dating in university? Is the joy and excitement of youth only about dating?

"It's a story about the university background, the front, the back, and everything that goes wrong. It presents the university as a place where people, clowns, Ko Phoe Kay, Ma Shwe Kay come and cause chaos every day."

In the June 1998 issue of Myat Maung magazine, writer Maung Tsangtaung wrote, “The Painful Things”

"Is it true?" is a short paragraph from a film review.

I wonder if those who write and make movies about university settings today have not heard of university students Ko Aung San, Ko Ba Hein, Ko Aung Kyaw, and university students Ma Ohn and Ma Ama. In the era of Ko Aung San and Ko Ba Hein, university students were not only interested in finding a girlfriend, but also worked with the vision of achieving independence for the country and raising the status of the nation.

In this day and age, university students are working hard with great aspirations to raise the standard of the country and the nation. They are not just making up stories. Not every young person and university student is just looking for fun.

Dagon Thara, Mya Than Tint, Maung Kyi, Aung Lin, Kyi Aye are the ones who emerged from the university campus. And there are many (many) young people like the “Zin Waing” in the movie “Dandaryi” who are thoughtful, intelligent, and reckless.

Why do university dramas only write and film light, cheap love stories?

By showing these things, isn't it like teaching young people to be fake?

You can't fake it. Today, in parks and zoos in Inya Lake and Yangon, it has become commonplace for boys and girls to walk hand in hand in the crowd. It's not uncommon to see it anymore. You only see it in movies.

When we were students about forty years ago, there were couples walking along the Inya River in the evening. But they didn't dare to walk with their arms around each other, let alone hold hands. Movies of that era didn't show couples hugging as much as they do now.

"Our people have lived in this way for hundreds and thousands of years, and when something called a movie came along, we could see the way men and women in the West interact on the big screen, which was so different from our way of life. It was embarrassing to watch. But as this show grew more and more popular, we patiently watched those scenes from the darkness in the movie theaters."

Later, the art of cinema also appeared in Myanmar. When it appeared, it was initially