- Published on New Yorker YouTube
- Starts of with shots and diagetic sound of waiting lounge, Louspeaker
- Doors open and people come out - seems like an airport
- Subtitles
- Titles: New York for the first time
- Hla Oo introduced by title
- Don't see his face but his objects first
- See his daily things - studying the dictionary
- Archive footage about burma - news footage and reels show the persecution he would explerience in Burma
- Sit down interview
- Shots of the nieghbourhood - trees, streets, telephone lines
- Him leaving house
- Explain connection between contributors with phone photo
- Hla in the car with old neighbour - lots of close ups
- First time in supermarket, buying coffee, traditional soup
- Male niehgbour playing his traditional song
- Neighbour centre of frame, close ups of hands and face
- Shot of birds then cuts back to Hla in home, waiting, neighbour watches TV - doing different things in one room
- Explains food stamps with titles
- Talking about family, shot of him looking at phone
- Expert talking about how refugees come -
- Hla showing all his id cards
- Washing up to pray
- View from train
- First trip to New York City in text
- Close up of his face
- Him taking pictures on phone
- Shots of new york square
- Mid then close of this face - same shot but closer
- Sound of male nieghbour playing guitar comes again
- Hla got a job offer ends the film on a positive
It is a slow paced documentary that mirrors the way he has to wait for the VISA process, with moments of him negotiating American and Burmese muslim culture.
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