YouTube - M Butterfly Music Video

[yellowhorde]

I really want to watch this movie again, but I can only find it on VHS and I haven't owned a VCR in years.

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[lain-chan16.livejournal.com]

oooo what is that and what is it about?

[yellowhorde.livejournal.com]

It's called M Butterfly and, according to Wikipedia, it is a movie 'loosely based on true events. René Gallimard, a French diplomat is assigned to Beijing, China in the 1960s. He becomes infatuated with a Chinese opera performer, Song Liling, who spies on him for government information under orders from the Chinese government.

Their affair lasts for twenty years, with Gallimard all the while apparently unaware (or wilfully ignorant) of the fact that in traditional Chinese opera, all roles are performed by men. Eventually, Gallimard betrays his country and is tried for treason, which forces him to face the truth about his relationship. Faced with the unbearable truth that his lover is actually male, he himself takes on the role of Butterfly, the woman who died for the sake of an illusory love.'

I thought it was a very beautiful movie. I just wish the parts they had posted on YouTube were in English.