This essay intends to focus on the themes that are common to Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly and Sean Baker’s movie Anora, such as those of predatory love and rejection, in order to highlight how both these works tell, in a disenchanted way, the stories of women who succumb to a romance that ends at its very beginning, because what they expected from it has taken over the reality of facts, very often much more raw and brutal than one can even imagine, demonstrating how every relationship nowadays is usually consumed in the time of an ephemeral sexual intercourse.
Il presente contributo intende soffermarsi sulle tematiche comuni alla Madama Butterfly di Giacomo Puccini e ad Anora di Sean Baker, quali l’amore predatorio e il rifiuto, con l’obiettivo di mettere in luce come entrambe le opere raccontino, in maniera disincantata, le vicende di donne che soccombono dinanzi ad una relazione terminata sul nascere, poiché ciò che si aspettavano da essa ha preso il sopravvento sulla realtà dei fatti, molto spesso ben più cruda e brutale di quanto ci si possa figurare, a dimostrazione di come ogni relazione si consumi ormai in un effimero rapporto sessuale.
Il prezzo delle illusioni amorose
Ciliberti, Eugenio
2025
Abstract
This essay intends to focus on the themes that are common to Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly and Sean Baker’s movie Anora, such as those of predatory love and rejection, in order to highlight how both these works tell, in a disenchanted way, the stories of women who succumb to a romance that ends at its very beginning, because what they expected from it has taken over the reality of facts, very often much more raw and brutal than one can even imagine, demonstrating how every relationship nowadays is usually consumed in the time of an ephemeral sexual intercourse.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


