Madama Butterfly Animation*

When i first started watching the animation video by Pjotr Sapegin I honestly thought it was very weird and creative at the same time because it looked like they were real people and they showed real emotions we experience and see everyday. What i understood was that the main character had met a guy from a different culture and devoted all of her life to him. He promises that he will come back and she believes every word he says and then she realizes that she was pregnant with his baby and realizes that she will never give up on him and will come back eventually. From what I learned and saw from our classes, not all Operas are fun and have happy endings like what we see today on a daily basis. The original song from the opera was perfect for the scene and it really made me feel what the main character (woman/mum) felt and i believe the music had a big role in it. I realized that the music started to change when the daughter grew up and while they were standing on the hill waiting for the father to come back. Then we realize that she's been waiting all this time and all her hopes were killed when the father showed up with the new woman and just takes the child away from her that she has raised all by herself. 

I thought that the music box played a big role in the animation video, as a way of symbolizing her life, when the mother was first seeing the man in the beginning, as she was giving birth, playing with her child and while she was waiting for her husband to come back. The butterfly, wind, and the umbilical cord played big roles in the animation as well using the butterfly to describe her as one and the umbilical cord as a form of a strong bond and connection to her daughter and by not cutting it from the beginning shows us how she doesn't want to leave a part of him. 

I believe that the metaphor of the fish tank and the fish is to narrowly explain the process of birth without showing any visuals and to explain that reproduction isn't only for human beings but also mammals. It has evolutionary undertones when i first saw the fish i got confused and wondered what it had to do with the woman and then i began to understand that they were relating to how a fetus grows from a tiny dot into a beautiful human being.