"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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M. Butterfly quotes

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

  • Ambassador Toulon: You said the Americans would succeed in Vietnam. You were kidding, right?