Pjotr Sapegin's Madama Butterfly

I would first like to start out by saying that this is flat out WEIRD. And I loved it. THe entire time I was watching the clip, I was so perplexed by the constant contradiction of art and beauty. FIrst there is the background song. This lovely Opera song is playing, and creating this sense that there is a lot of emotions going on because opera is emotional. Of you close your eye you can almost see the lady with the blonde hair and horned hat singing in the mist of a gloomy background. This is a timeless scene that almost everyone can picture.

Instead when you look, you are met with to dolls doing the boom boom in the middle of a field. I personally broke into laughter and pretty much continued to chuckle the whole video. Although the song seems to go with the video, based on the tone, level of volume and what not that is occurring, there is just something wrong about dolls having sex. But it gets better, there is now a fishbowl growing in the "asian" dolls bell, complete with fish that is trying to break out.

This did seem to again straddle the realm of the estranged, but it was interesting to see the artists depiction of child development outside of the body. They enter the world of oxygen from a water womb, and begin to grasp for air. They are solely dependent on their parents, and cannot survive with out their continue support as they start to grow and develop into independent humans.

What really disgusted me was the weird umbilical cord that seemed to be connected to the mother and daughter the entire video. They even acted as kites? Which can possibly bee seen as the child trying to grow and spread their own wings, but still require the support of the parent to live. But oh no, he comes ken doll to take that all away from the mother. Who had been waiting years for his return.

He rips the cord and there goes the little baby amongst a culturally diverse family, which seems to just bee all the babies he has created as a navy seamen. This destroys the mother. She is so filled with inner turmoil and disgust that she no longer wishes to live. SHe must be upset with the fact that she waited for this man, and even seemed to love him. And now all he does is take the child, who is way to willing to go with this stranger. This causes the mother to rip her face off in a grueling way, and then proceded to completely rip her self apart until she simply blows away into nothing.

This video is obviously wacked, and gives a creative way to express the essence of the opera drama. personally i think there could have been a better way to do this. but for sheer reaction factor, the director did a wonderful job. they even created the reassurance that this will be remembered though. so props over all to this film.