A film about Western imperialism and the cultural revolution, David Cronenberg-style!

This film implies that America's disastrous escalation of the Vietnam war was because of one horny French diplomat whose affair with a Chinese opera singer led him to project his own fantasy of the exotic orient and Asian submissiveness into his intelligence briefings. There's a lot more going on in this one. A brutal and gut-wrenching look at how much of what we regard as love between men and women is an artifice that each person builds out of the other.

"You are all here because you do not know how to dig into the flinty soil of China and discover its revolutionary future."

we have induced this dysmorphia with our aggressive privilege, our delusion, and our occasional delight in taking what we want when it suits us, only to be seduced, consumed and finally abandoned by the power and potential of this transformation.

"He was very responsive to my ancient Oriental ways of love, all of which I invented just for him."

Only a Pisces could have made this - love as a political weapon lmao

The final minutes hold the key to all of Cronenberg's cinema.

why aren’t we talking abt this movie all the time

"It's not the story, it's the music."

Recently got to see Cronenberg's The Fly again, and was struck by how romantic and beautiful it is, despite the monster movie trappings. Here he does something even more sumptuous and mysterious, and I got almost as swept up in it as I did with The Fly - which makes sense because in broad strokes the two aren't really so different after all. They're both about arrogant men who get transformed into something terrifying, and also like The Fly, The Butterfly is only terrifying depending on your perspective.

Not your usual Cronenberg movie. Jeremy Irons and John Lone fall in love in 1960's China, except Irons thinks Lone is a woman. It's a true story as well. A bit slow but it's well made and you can't help but keep watching to see where it goes.

Bajo el microscopio cronenbergesco, una muestra de cómo el deseo desenfrenado puede ser el catalizador de una mutación. Visto en el macro, una muestra del colonialismo como manifestación de una mutación.

Jeremy Irons en los últimos 30 minutos se deteriora como brundlefly en cámara rápida. Es una de las cosas más tristes que he visto en mi vida.

Este era uno de los huecos que me faltaba llenar en la filmografía Cronenberg. No tenía idea que fuera un hueco tan grande.

"مادام باترفلای" در نگاه اول شاید با هیچ یک از فیلمهای "کراننبرگ" شباهتی نداشته باشد چراکه برخلاف بیشتر آثارش در این فیلم خبری از عناصر سورئال 'وحشت جسمانی' همیشگی نیست اما با نگاهی عمیق تر این موضوع روشن می گردد که "کراننبرگ" باز هم بر روی روابط انسان ها و پیوستگی روان شناختی و جسمانی آن ها دست گذاشته است. داستان "مادام باترفلای" که از اپرای همنام اثر "جاکومو پوچینی" و نمایش نامه "دیوید هنری هوانگ" اقتباس شده است، در دهه 60 و در چین اتفاق می افتد و به مسائلی نظیر امپرياليسم، تبعیض نژادی، تفاوت های فرهنگی و نقش های جنسیتی مرد و زن تلنگر می زند. ایراداتی نظیر پیشروی بسیار سریع رابطه کاراکتر "جرمی آیرونز" و "باترفلای" وارد است اما درعوض "مادام باترفلای" پایان بندی بسیار خوبی دارد.

ONE GOOD THING ABOUT M. BUTTERFLY:

The scene where accountant Jeremy Irons is bullied by his co-workers at a party as if they're children forced to sit with each other at lunch. He then retreats to eat with his wife, only to have to share a tiny piano bench with her while she ignores him for some other guy. Poor nerd.

Não vi, nem verei.
Odeio musicais

Great atmosphere and the final performing scene in the jail is intense. Irons is amazing.

[64]

dave was on a fucking rock for this one, yeesh

A film about Western imperialism and the cultural revolution, David Cronenberg-style!

This film implies that America's disastrous escalation of the Vietnam war was because of one horny French diplomat whose affair with a Chinese opera singer led him to project his own fantasy of the exotic orient and Asian submissiveness into his intelligence briefings. There's a lot more going on in this one. A brutal and gut-wrenching look at how much of what we regard as love between men and women is an artifice that each person builds out of the other.

Jeremey Irons goes to such a vulnerable, tender place in this. It might be my favorite of his performances.

Galing ni Jeremy Irons at John Lone dito sa pelikula. Made me want to watch the stage production na original source nito.

I’ve sat here and tried to think of what to write for a while and still can’t put it into words just how beautiful this film is, so all I can say is go and experience it for your self.

Cronenberg Ranked

If you or someone you know doesn't know the twist in this film, please watch it. It's stylish and unpredictable, and it takes a vicious bite into white male imperialist thought. Jeremy Irons is amazing as usual.

Pretty great movie that suffers from some pacing issues in the third act and, despite coming out 27 years ago, is deeply respectful of the characters involved in the story