Additional commentary:
As an Asian American, the screenwriter added a story based on a true spy story with his own reflections on the cultural conflict between the East and the West, Western mentality and gender identity to create this profound play "Mr. Butterfly". Uncle Long and Uncle Tie's performances are very good, and there is no particularly strong sense of disobedience. I have always been somewhat hostile to the stories of the Eastern Shepherd camp told from the perspective of the Western capitalist camp, and I am very dissatisfied with the director's deletion of some of the original lines:
The West has always thought of itself as masculine - powerful weapons, strong industry, strong capital - while the East is feminine - delicate, delicate and poor, full of mysterious wisdom and enigmatic femininity. I am an oriental, and as an oriental I will never (in their eyes) be a man.
Are you afraid of angering the Pinkertons in the West? I have never seen this story as a love story, as G said, what I fell in love with was a woman who was created by a man, and the reason why Song Zhongzhong and Comrade Qian said the role of Dan is played by a man is that only men know what a woman should do Echoing each other from a distance. I never regard this story as a love story. What G "loves" from beginning to end is always a fantasy. In fact, it is more accurate to say it is possession and conquest. Love is always in his subconscious. After the desire, in essence, this fantasy was not even given to him by Song, but he first constructed a prototype of a "perfect woman" in his own mind, and Song was only on the basis of what he constructed. The filling of details makes this image more full and more deeply rooted. So when I watched it, I didn't feel any sympathy for G, I just felt that he was cocooning himself. As for Song's feelings for G, I understand it more as a sense of accomplishment in hunting and a kind of reluctance that Song has spent 18 years infiltrating. To Song, G was just an object, an object he had spent eighteen years trying to conquer and had a skin-to-skin relationship. The last tears are probably also a kind of regret for this ending. Maybe he still has some sympathy and affection for G, but this is definitely not love. Maybe Song just hopes that there is a person who can love that woman with all his heart and disguise the real him, and it doesn't matter whether the person who loves him is G or not.
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