Destiny

The final scene where Gallimard dressed up as Butterfly and killed himself with a seppuku suicidal way. It showed how Mme. Butterfly and M.Butterfly can be the same and also not the same at all. In Mme. Butterfly, madame Butterfly was being used with her love and trust by her White husband. In M.Butterfly, Gallimard was being used, controled and played like a toy by Song. However, in Mme.Butterfly, Madame was being used from the beginning as a Oriental girl. In another hand, in M.Buttefly, at the beginning Gallimard thought he could be Pinkerton #2 where he could get himself an Asian girl and try how different it is to have an Asian mistress, besides a Caucasion wife. Surprisingly, things turned out differently. It turned out that Song was actually Pinkerton, whereas Gillimard was a truly Butterfly. It amazed me how thing turned out so differently. David Henry Hwang did a great job by not follow the original play M. Butterfly by Pucinni. He turned things around by not to make another Asian girl be a victim, but turned the White man into a real victim who’s deserved to die.