"Mr Butterfly"

Wiley 2022-11-13 00:33:58

Casting, music, costumes and sets are all perfect. Zunlong women's clothes are soft and charming, and men's clothes are handsome and handsome. Madame Butterfly's soundtrack is poignant and mournful, and the opera form adds to the mysterious and mysterious color created by the collision of Eastern and Western cultures.

Favorite scene is Zunlong kneeling in front of Rene and courting. He was naked, with short hair, and his arms were thin and strong. The dim light illuminated the man's physique, but his eyes were full of a woman's tenderness. Rene was nostalgic for the temperature of his skin, but couldn't face the cruel reality of his broken dreams, so he could only bury his face in Song's palm and closed his eyes to touch his Madam Butterfly. It was the familiar contour of his cheek. However, opening his eyes is the moment when the dream is broken. Rene is afraid to say love, leaving Song on his knees and weeping.

The only thing that makes people feel a little uncomfortable in this film is the woman under the gaze of the man, the East under the gaze of the West. In the film, this issue is mentioned many times frankly. For example, Song sighed by the river and said, "Only men know how women will react." But that doesn't have to go up in value, after all, it's the truth, and the movie just reflects the truth. Rene will mistake men for women, which is indeed a dislocation fantasy based on the above two perspectives.

Finally, regarding Rene's ending, I borrow a comment from db's high praise: "He once stubbornly believed that he was a soldier who fell in love with Madam Butterfly and was admired by her, and finally found that he worked hard for most of his life but became the one who died for love. Lady Butterfly."

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Extended Reading
  • Trent 2022-04-21 09:03:17

    The screenwriter's skills are a little weaker. Although it is a real story, it still lacks convincing. But the next half hour was still very exciting. Zunlong who changed into men's clothes and Jeremy who was dressed as Butterfiy both made people's eyes shine. Three and a half.

  • Coby 2022-03-15 09:01:09

    I can't think of a life more terrible and terrifying than this, twenty years of long turbulence and lies, longing and despair, love or humiliation: subtle and complex and therefore intense enough contradictions. All the breath of "this will be a tragic tragedy" that you smell at the beginning of the movie even collapsed beyond expectation. As a result, Rene changed her role to become the Madame Butterfly who couldn't even exchange her dignity with death, the horn of love ruined, and the harlequin of hopeless life. Cronenberg has always arrogated gender and politics, blurred the boundaries of power, and gradually penetrated into the subtle tension between people in his narrative style, which made everything more frightening and helpless. Song has experienced decades of torture like a slow journey through hell, tortures of identity, gender, love, and politics, while Rene is forced to face the loss of his entire life at the last second. Jeremy Irons pierced Rene's neck with a mirror fragment, and the sharp edge came out from under the flesh on the other side: Boursico who cut his neck with a razor in the real incident: "Looking back, I must be a harlequin of the century."

M. Butterfly quotes

  • Song Liling: Comrade! Why in Beijing opera are woman's roles traditionally played by men?

    Comrade Chin: I don't know. Most probably a remnant of the reactionary and patriarchal social structure.

    Song Liling: No. It's because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

  • Song Liling: The days I spent with you were the only days I ever truly existed.