7.24 - 9.25

from 'M Butterfly' (1993) directed by David Cronenberg

based on the play by David Henry Hwang

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i remember watching this film as a child, but not really taking it in.  M. Song reveals and represents Gallimard's Orientalism as pure fantasy; ideological and gendered.


"i am a man who loved a woman, created by man."

"The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated...You expect Oriental countries to submit to your guns, and you expect Oriental women to be submissive to your men."

- Song Liling, from M. Butterfly Act III by David Henry Hwang