- The story of the Milk Ogre curse is still accepted in some Burmese villages. The women living in that kind of village misbelieve that if a woman has a curse of milk ogre upon her, her baby will die by taking her breast milk. So, to avoid this tragedy, she denies to breastfeed her baby and rather sells the baby to someone else for adoption and then break the curse. The film was directed for the purpose of expressing this strange obsession.—The Milk Ogre
- Kan Kaung's wife , Swal Mi has already given birth two times but she has lost all her children because she has a curse of a milk ogre which means any child who would come to drink her milk will lose their lives after having her milk. The couple comes to a hermit to ask for a child. The hermit gives a charm to tie on her right hand to have a baby boy and she has to sell him away to other as a son , then she has to adopt him back as her son. Only this way , she can save his life. After she has saved this child, the curse will be broken and she will has more children. So the couple did as the hermit asked and they have a boy who is sold to a monk and they even have one more son after that. Their elder son , Noe Balu(Milk Ogre) always bullies the second son , Pho Lamin. Maybe that's because he was brought up with cow milk instead of mother's milk. He's always finding a way to fight. One day Noe Balu leaves his home because he has heard what his parents said that he will have a good sense only if they ordain him as a monk. He wants to go to a place where he can do whatever evil deeds he wants and there is no rules to restrain him. He joins the master Kyauk Saung and requests to accept him as a disciple. Master Kyauk Saung accepts him and Noe Balu become the best disciple for him. Noe Balu hasn't done anything good in this world. After he has lost his wife, his son ,his father and brother because of him, he wants to wash his filthy misdeeds . He comes back to his mother who is lost her eye sight at the moment. As the sins he has made are so huge , he dares not confess to her . He is pretending as his younger brother to stay by her side. He has made an oath in front of Buddha statue that he won't do any misdeeds again. He asks his mother to let him to change into monkhood . The mother dies peacefully after she has become the mother of a monk. (True story based on the traditional Burmese concept)
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content