M. Butterfly (1993)

Shizuko Hoshi: Comrade Chin

Quotes 

• Song Liling : Comrade! Why in Beijing opera are woman's roles traditionally played by men?

  Comrade Chin : I don't know. Most probably a remnant of the reactionary and patriarchal social structure.

  Song Liling : No. It's because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

• Comrade Chin : Don't you understand how degrading those images are to women? And why do you have to behave this way when he is not even here?

  Song Liling : Comrade, in order to better serve the Great Proletarian State, I practice my deception as often as possible. I despise this costume, yet for the sake of our Great Helmsman, I will endure it, along with all the other bourgeois Western perversions.

  Comrade Chin : I'm not convinced that this will be enough to redeem you in the eyes of the Party.

  Song Liling : I'm trying my best to become somebody else.