This video was beautiful. It is a stop-motion animation with the score from the opera Madama Butterfly by Giacommo Puccini. I thought the stop-motion choice was perfect in this short film. If the clip was made with real people, it would look cliche and some of the effects (like how the women and her daughter were flying and the woman taking herself apart) would not be possible. Also, a cartoon or drawing would not be as interesting to look at. This clip is successful because its art is so interesting to look at you cannot take your eyes off of it.
I loved the part when the woman had her baby. There was just a glass sphere for her swollen stomach and then the glass breaks and a fish flows out when she has her baby. I thought that was so cool because it was such a creative idea to show her having a baby through a breaking marble rather than the standard way.
Another one of my favorite parts was at the ending when the woman was so distraught that she took herself apart and became a butterfly. The music and the way she unmade herself conveyed her emotions perfectly because the love of her life and his girlfriend took her daughter away, so all she wanted to do was whither away. The ending was hopeful, though, because she ended up changing into a butterfly.
I think the whole meaning behind this short film is that change can be good, even though it may hurt. Change turned the woman's new-born fish into a wonderful daughter, change made the woman love the man more when she waited for him, and finally, the change of the man's heart compelled the woman to morph into a beautiful butterfly.
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