Are you my butterfly

Bonnie 2022-11-01 01:53:02

In the early 1960s, politicians from the French consulate met Chinese actress Song Liling during a performance, and the story of Madame Butterfly's sacrifice for love. The French admired it very much. Miss Song retorted: If it were a hot cheerleader from Western Europe, she would fall in love with her. The Japanese dwarf winter melon, and then the dwarf winter melon made a good relationship, and the captain committed suicide, will you still be moved? You just call the captain a fool. ——Because of the dialogue at the beginning, I finally let go of my mind, knowing that what I see next will not be a Western fantasy intoxicated by an orientalist situation.

Of course, Miss Song had other plans for the Frenchman, but she just waited for Junzi to enter the urn. On the contrary, the Frenchman seemed to be infatuated with this man with a tough face, as if he didn't know where it came from. It is said that she is as shy as an underdeveloped girl, Miss Song. In Beijing in the 1960s, Miss Song spoke fluent English. In Beijing opera, she played the Japanese lady Butterfly, but the old servant at home was full of Cantonese, and she had to get it from the French. It was also the American soldier during the Vietnam War. The trend of the book - it is as chaotic as a United Nations, but it is based on a ture story, the background knowledge is lacking like mine, and only the old land sighs, the reality is far more wonderful than the compilation of literature and art.

I don't know if the girl Song in reality is also like the people in the play. She first embraced Mr. Gao from France, and then used the excuse of being forced to stay in the mainland to give birth to a child. When he arrived in Paris, he lied that his son was detained by the mainland, and told him to continue working for the party. Because Mr. Gao has sold information before, although Mr. Gao has not been exposed, at this time, his high-ranking position is not guaranteed, and he has to go around in the wind and rain, transporting confidential documents, and taking advantage of this remaining position to continue to provide information, In the end, of course, it always fails.

When he was tried in court, what embarrassed him the most was not the crime of treason, but the oriental woman he thought he loved all his life, but turned out to be an oriental man. The oriental sentiment, which was in line with the Western purpose of sexual obscenity, instantly became the laughing stock of the whole country, and in the prison car, the oriental man raised the corner of his mouth and sneered in return. This is the end of the matter, Mr. Gao went to jail, Mr. Song was sent back to the mainland, and it was over. After being released from prison, Mr. Gao, who has been stinking for thousands of years, may still be able to break the jar, and publish his autobiography, "How I Entered the Realm of Transformation", for the people of Paris to talk about after dinner. But unexpectedly, there's a good show going on in the prisons of Paris. Mr. Gao put on the costume left by Mr. Song, dressed himself up as Mrs. Butterfly, and successfully committed suicide on the stage quietly.

When in China, he once asked her, Are you my butterfly? She said yes. Now when he finds out that she is not, he chooses to be butterfly himself. What he and Mrs. Butterfly have in common is that he fell in love with a man who was like a shrewd man, but he still sacrificed himself for his love. When a person cannot find his own Mrs Butterfly, he can only choose to transform himself into a butterfly.

Only here did the audience realize that the protagonist of this movie is not Zunlong. The point of view may be how he crosses the line, but the protagonist must not be. It is also because of this last turning point that this film, which thinks it has a good atmosphere, is actually 80% like DV, and the film quality is almost non-existent, and finally turned from a farce into a tragedy.

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Extended Reading
  • 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."

  • Murray 2022-03-19 09:01:09

    Whoever realizes the big dream first, I don't know in my life. You hold the butterfly in your hand, for fear that it will wither, but you don't want it to be a dragonfly, it will fly away at dawn.

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.