Madama Butterfly Post #2

I've never got to see the opera Madama Butterfly, but from the clip we saw in class I can tell why professor always cries! It's so sad and as a woman I think we can all relate to our first love, or being dissapointed by love. It's so sad how she actually gave him all of her heart and he had no intention of actually loving her back the way that she loved him. I love the video linked in the syllabus where they are animated as plastic Barbie dolls; even through plastic you can still feel how much pain she is going through.  After their steamy outdoor sex scene, he says fairwell to her and even gives her his Navy had to keep so she will always think of him.  It's so sad because you see him walk away and then day turns into night and she is still waiting - longing for him to come back to her. I personally like that the animation is through plastic dolls because I feel even more sad for some reason. He finally comes back for her only for her to find him with another woman 'a perfect Barbie like blonde' completely opposite of what she is.  He proceeds to take her child away from her and leave her forever. I think it was extremely creative how the creator of the video let her walk off the cliff right into the studio that created the video. She rips her face off, skin, and begins to unscew all her gears with a screwdriver (a nicer way to portray suicide).