B3

    I had several thoughts about Pjotr Sapegin’s video Madama Butterfly. I thought that the way he portrayed the story using stop motion was a very different idea. It was an extremely well edited video with a flawless motion; it was as if the movie were one conformed movie. The story made the viewer feel happiness, love, hope, sadness, betrayal, and other emotions towards the woman, her lover, and her child throughout the video. 

    The artist wordlessly spoke using art and music for a sense of powerful emotion. Using opera, we got the sense of the woman’s broken heart when her lover left and betrayed her. When the opera was being played, the viewer got the sense of extreme sadness, as if connecting to the character in the story.  

   I really thought that near the end of the video, when she ran off of the set, was extremely unique. It was cool to not only see some of the equipment it took to run the movie, but we got to see that the woman was actually “alive”. When she took her own life and became the butterfly at the end, it was a nice way to wrap up the story and to show the viewers that she had gone to a better place.