M. Butterfly Page #6

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but I think they probably...

Don't you think we have had enough

to drink for tonight?

Well...

You look exactly as I imagined you would

under your clothes.

What did you expect?

So come and get it.

You've been drinking.

I've missed you.

- You expect me to give up my career?

- Of course not.

I am your slave.

Slave?

You toss words like that around

as if you really meant them.

But I do.

Well, let's test this obedience of yours.

Take your clothes off.

Come on.

I'm a man.

I want to see you naked.

But I thought you understood

my modesty.

I thought you respected my shame.

I believe you gave me your shame

some time ago.

And it is just like a white devil

to use it against me.

White devil, so?

I'm no longer your lord and master.

So your obedience has limits, I see.

Why are you treating me like this?

Because all this rubbish...

...about me being faithful

and good to you and...

Well, I'm not what you think I am.

Even the softest skin

becomes like leather...

...to a man who's touched it too often.

I confess.

I do not know how to stop it.

I do not know how to change my body

into the body of another.

Come.

Strip me.

Our love, in your hands.

I'm helpless before you.

Ren.

I'm pregnant.

- What?

- I'm pregnant.

Oh, Butterfly.

Mm.

I've betrayed you in so many ways,

but I'll love you.

Mm. I'll rescue you.

And save you, and protect you, and...

You have.

Tonight, my beautiful master.

Believe me, you have saved my life.

I wish I were coming with you.

Dream of me and of your son.

I will return with him

from my parents' village...

...when he is 3 months old

as is our custom.

I've told you I'll be perfectly happy

with a daughter.

I am certain it will be a son.

I need a baby.

A Chinese baby with blond hair.

Ha, ha, ha.

This is wonderful talk.

You really are mad.

Trading babies?

The ministry will never approve

such a thing. Ha.

Fine.

You tell the ministry

we can no longer provide them...

...any more information

on American troop movements in Vietnam.

I've done my best.

Tell them you personally have decided

the revolution...

...is not worth any more sacrifice.

I'll wait here.

We will struggle with this in committee.

Comrade.

Why, in Beijing opera, are women's roles

traditionally played by men?

I don't know.

Probably a remnant of the reactionary

and patriarchal social structure.

No.

It's because only a man knows

how a woman is supposed to act.

In short, gentlemen,

the report stresses that:

"The fanatical student movement

known as the Red Guard...

...has emerged as a genuinely potent

reactionary political force...

...which will seize upon any excuse

to justify the expulsion...

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