This stop motion animation created a surreal experience using the plastic dolls with what appear to be clay faces and dreary painted backgrounds. It starts out seeming like a fairly normal art piece, sexuality is displayed in a way to show the connection of the two characters. The way it would have been done the original opera may have been less graphic but it still appears to follow the same idea. When the male leaves the female character is shown watching and waiting alone.
It is here that the animation really becomes surreal and shows that it is going for a much different way of showing the story's development. The part when she flies her child like a kite with her umbilical cord made me have to watch again just to be sure that is what I actually saw.
After her child was taken away she leaves the set of the painted backgrounds into what looks like either someone's house or an art studio. She proceeds to rip her face and body open to expose a metallic skeleton in way that I can only describe as some sort of dream like trance. Then she completely disassembles herself and the pieces vanish across the table.
Maybe more knowledge of the original opera is needed to truly understand what occurred during this animation but I think I can make an assumption. It seems as if the loss of her child and her lover caused her to abandon all of her humanity represented by her complete deconstruction into a pile of materials. Perhaps the end scene when she is shown again with the butterfly in her hair represents rebirth and change after her death.
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