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Autumn 2022-09-28 11:14:57

I watched this movie yesterday afternoon, and I felt very shocked. The filming time was very early and it was very real. The delicacy and collision between the two people are very interesting. The three scenes that impressed me the most in the whole film are Song Liling asking Gao Renni to light a cigarette. Song Liling said that only men know how women will react and Gao Renni committed suicide at the end.

At the end of the movie, Gao Renni was taken into prison, where he performed a performance. He began to put on makeup on the stage, dressed as Song Liling when she was singing, and he also put on a wig, which perfectly imitated an Oriental Woman, the people watching the performance from the beginning laughed at Gao Renni until the end became shocked. At the end of the performance, Gao Renni seemed to recall everything he had once, tears filled his eyes, the performance was full of tears. It was over, and Gao Renni used the mirror he performed to cut his throat and kill himself.

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Extended Reading
  • Gerard 2022-04-22 07:01:49

    Curious works by Westerners for Westerners. To this day, only Zunlong's pink makeup and jade-carved body is worth seeing.

  • Domenick 2022-03-17 09:01:08

    In such an obvious intercultural communication text, it is simple to read Orientalism and Oriental-woman-feminine structure, but as Rey Chow said, this is not the core of the film. This kind of thinking refers to "illusion" as a deliberate deception or "false consciousness", that is, Western men are Eastern women who desire disguise because of illusions. When illusions are referred to as structural problems of human cognition, the analysis of "ideology, misogyny, and racism that devalue illusions" must be re-analyzed. We need to see how Eastern women conceal their clothing, seducing and lusting Western men, and exercising their power as Phallus. Renni becoming a butterfly (madam) is not only a sign of the inversion of power, but also an attempt to reject the gaze. In the process of drawing himself into a butterfly, his illusion-like independence gained through the original narcissism in the mirror phase ends. Will disappear. This also implies that the femininity and "Oriental woman" are the truth about himself as a Western man. As a Western man, he just dreams of becoming the Western penis of an Eastern woman. A fundamentally different approach to the East has emerged in the West.

M. Butterfly quotes

  • Frau Baden: Still playing the missionary are you, Gallimard? Or... are there other positions that interest you as well?

  • Drunk in Paris bar: [Hearing pro-Communist students parading outside] God damn it! Must be those fucking students again! Talk about China? I'll be you if go out that door you'll think you're back in Beijing! Every damn leftist student in Paris has Mao's little red book in his hand, and a red firecracker up his ass!