It’s like the whole western superstition believes and loves such a love story: the petite and docile woman of the East falls in love with the tall and mighty white man, and the Eastern love makes her tame like a slave and worship like a subject. The white man finally leaves and abandons. After this mysterious and coquettish oriental butterfly-in the end, it was still a simple and clear woman from the West and life more suitable for him, and the oriental butterfly still loved him selflessly and infatuatedly, and completed the last love with self-sacrifice.
If the specific names and place names are removed and the whole story is completely abstracted, this story is only about the complete conquest and enslavement of the East by the powerful West until it is useless and abandoned. The implicit, mysterious and mysterious expressions of the Easterners, under the narrative of the deeply fascinated Westerners, made the entire colonial process beautiful and tragic. The self reflected from the eyes of others is often the most unique, most beautiful or ugly side of the ontology, the most exaggerated and concentrated expression. Under such gaze, everything becomes seductive due to deformation and alienation. Ecstasy.
In fact, are not all love and stories like this? The misunderstanding of beauty caused by the dislocation of perspective.
Therefore, "Madame Butterfly" will always be a bright red wound tearing the faces of oriental women. What is touching is the melody, and this story is nothing but a cruel image or fact of a Westerner.
Just like Song Liling's indifferent refutation of Gao Renni's sincere flattery and admiration, no matter whether she is from the perspective of colonialism or the perspective of class struggle. Renni was shocked by her intellectual classicality and polite restraint, but never learned anything from it. The sharp and gleaming intelligent voice and bright and indifferent eyes were poisons in Gao Renni's eyes, so he fought hard and turned into an incarnation. Cheng Moth chased the confusing Madame Butterfly.
That was Madame Butterfly in the post-colonial era. She wore a plain white cheongsam with gold hairpins and jade bracelets, and gently sang the concubine drunk. Western education gave her fluent English, which means that she can communicate with the blond French diplomat on an equal footing;
she is classical A symbol of beauty, a dignified and well-trained woman among the boudoirs; and modernization gives her a vision and insight that is not inferior to men.
If all this is not enough to convince a man at her feet, then when she faces the familiar innocent, determined and humble love and self revealed by her lover, it proves that she is a more perfect oriental butterfly than Qiu Qiusang.
At this time, the reserved reservedness of Chinese women, even if only the traditional word, is a medicine, which stirs and digests the liver, intestines and lungs of Gao Renni, and under this skin with oriental mystery, the surging enthusiasm is also due to The sense of guilt brought by breaking the taboo turns into a burning fire.
Gao Renni is not so much in love with a woman as it is to fall in love with the image that has fascinated countless Westerners, and now he is finally embodied in such a perfect woman. So Gao Renni's love has nothing to do with time and place, it is unwavering, and it lasts forever, love is crazy and blind. The passion he experienced didn't care about people and things, but the superstition of the illusion in his mind.
At the Swedish Consulate that night, it was not Song Liling who really fell in love with one of them at first sight, but Qiu Qiusang, who was pure and white on stage and sang "A Sunny Day" infatuatedly and resolutely. And is there any Westerner who can remain unmoved or fall when seeing this situation? Song Liling is just an object of empathy, so he never cares about who this person is, why he is here, why he is here, all he loves from beginning to end is just the innocent and implicitly madly loving tall and mighty white man, in the end The Oriental Butterfly who gave his life for it, he admires her, he loves her, and he waits for her to die for him one day.
Therefore, all the loopholes in Song Liling played by Zun Long have become the best irony in this way. How blind has Gorenni been blinded by his fascination with illusions.
"Mr. Butterfly" is definitely not the so-called "same-sex love" that is worthy of appreciation. From the beginning to the end, the film has nothing to do with it. Gao Renni had never loved Song Liling who was a man. He hated the man naked in front of him, which shattered all his fantasies about butterflies and the martyrdom of the East. He finally died on the stage dramatically, fulfilling the fate of Madame Butterfly, dying for his dead love, and the story is complete. It's just that what he loves is just an incomplete image, and in the end it is no longer the delicate Oriental butterfly in his arms that is utterly desolate. The Oriental butterfly has long gone by the breeze, or stayed in the dusty past and never came. But is this depraved death of Gao Renni touching or ridiculous? The question that Song Liling raised coldly could not help but resurfaced before her eyes. But it's no wonder that whoever lets him get deeper into the play, whoever puts all in, loses all the games. But perhaps he was content to death, anyhow, he had a dream, crazy about it, burning himself, burning jade and stone, it was worth it.
Gorenni is indeed a Frenchman, a personally active romantic.
Song Liling is an annoying character. It's not because he sold his life for the CCP for several years, betrayed his body and deceived his true feelings. He was only a prop from beginning to end, an actor on the stage, no matter how precise and brilliant the performance was, he couldn't do without a book. Going through fire and water to perform hard, no matter how successful it is, it is only a chess piece in the hands of others. After all, the actors are always lowly, and it is here that they lost their identity.
Danjiao understands women better than women, and the Chinese Communist Party understands Westerners better than Westerners. Therefore, under the two phases, Gao Renni was played between the palms of his hands. Associated with the entire West, the US-Vietnam War was a big slap in the face of Westerners who day by day imagined that a woman from the East was sitting on a spring, and this transnational espionage case, after years of tossing for many years, had a lot of gains. It was given to the French government to wipe the ass to the end. Gorenni was still obsessed with the gentle dreams of the Eastern woman in shame and anger, but he knew something about it, but the whole of the West, I don’t know that Gaorenni’s sporadic understanding is now available, and the Eastern Butterfly will not be as good as Yuji. In general, you will kill yourself, and you will not be able to withstand the poisonous hands that you can't guess. When you think you are the incomparably brave and affectionate overlord, don't you know that people have long regarded you as a fool. In this way, Gorenni was destined from the beginning to be completely wounded and hopeless, because his dream was a yellow flower the next day, and it was incomplete. "Madame Butterfly" is finally just a phantom, placed on the shelf in the art hall, singing as if the hair is not very strong, the indulgent West has become the victim of this cruel colonial image.
It is a pity that in the slogan of "Miss Saigon" with the background of the US-Vietnam War in 1987, it clearly stated that this was a "modern version of Madame Butterfly."
Fortunately, we still have the Shanghai female shooter in "Shanghai Express" left to us by Stenberg, and the Golden Commander in "Shanghai Gesture", or Su Sihuang, who was all the rage in the 1960s. However, these have become mists for a while, Commander Jin is the damaged and insulted Madame Butterfly, who has become ruthless, and Su Sihuang's eye-catching is far from her final over-perfect ending.
But who knows? What we love sincerely, Qiu Qiusang’s innocence and beauty, or Kim’s forbearance and determination, these are the outstanding qualities of Eastern women that Western women lack. We are our outstanding representatives of women in these plays. We clapped and shed tears.
"Madame Butterfly" is therefore meaningful.
So, who says that only the West is intoxicated by the butterfly dream, we are not all the same.
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