MetroActive.com – By Richard von Busack
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“We can always fool a foreigner,” is supposedly a common Chinese saying. When the foreigner is ready to be deluded, as is Jeremy Irons’ Gallimard in M. Butterfly, director David Cronenberg’s 1993 adaptation of David Henry Hwang’s play, the job is halfway done. Gallimard is a naive embassy employee in Peking during the Cultural Revolution. He is possessed of poisonously romantic notions, particularly of Puccini’s suicidal heroine Madame Butterfly…