Madama Butterfly animation

The short animation of Madama Butterfly is based off of the full version written by Pjotr Sapegin. The animation takes the necessary basics from the full story line and puts it into an animation making more understandable for those who speak only English. The animation has no words, however, the plot is continuously acted out by dolls giving a visual effect that true opera cannot. In the animation the music from Madama Butterfly is played through a record player brought by the sailor who Madama Butterfly foolishly falls for. I found the animation very helpful to get a full understanding of the story line. I did feel that the animation became a little too graphic in some parts just for the fact that dolls were acting out the scenes. For example the scene where Madama Butterfly and the sailor take part in coitis in a field. On the other hand, some scenes did effectively portray the strong emotion that would be felt if watching the actual opera. The ending scene where Madama Butterfly destroys herself because she has nothing left to live for becomes very emotional. The animators chose to have Madama Butterfly rip her skin off until all that was left was her man-made skeleton. She continues to take a tool and rip herself limb from limb showing her extreme hopelessness. I feel that this was a very good way to get the concept across instead of having her jump off of the cliff or other various ways to commit suicide.