"Given that Burma?s movie industry is tightly directed by the government, suffers from a deficit of technical skills and technology—not to mention financing problems—it?s a small miracle anything gets produced at all... Aye Aye, in her 40s, does not bother to hide her dislike of made-in-Burma m ovies. "Burmese films are not natural, their themes are boring and they never change plots. I hate to watch them." She prefers Hollywood movies. Other members of her family like the Chinese and Korean soap operas that air on state-run TV. "In fact," she said, "karaoke is ahead of the [Burmese] movie." Many educated Burmese in Rangoon told The Irrawaddy that they stopped watching Burmese films many years ago..."