The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon) (2007)

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 28 18:19

''I decided to stop pitying myself. Other than my eye, two things aren't paralyzed, my imagination and my memory.'' The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed. Mathieu Amalric: Jean-Dominique 'Jean-Do' Bauby Emmanuelle Seigner: Céline Desmoulins Diving Bell/Butterfly is a true Story and evidence that truth can be more astounding than any fiction can. Tells the tale of Jean-Dominique Bauby who tragically becomes immobilized apart from his left eye. For the duration of Diving Bell we mostly see what Jean-Do sees through his eye, from his perception and perspective of the world. We the audience begin to realize and ascertain how trapped and confined he i...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 28 5:58

"Other than my eye, two things aren't paralysed. My imagination...and my memory. They're the only two ways I can escape from my diving bell." - Jean-Dominique Bauby Le Scaphandre et le papillon (in English, the title translates to The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) is a masterful, ethereal, beautiful cinematic composition based on the unbearably poignant memoirs of French magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby. This phenomenal novel is impossible to read without frequently evoking knowledge of the monumental exertions Bauby must have undertaken to write it. Painstakingly dictated, one single letter and one sole blink at a time, it's the work of an incredibly ardent and witty mind irretrievably locked in a vegetative condition. Bauby's memoirs served as a ready-made canvas for the artistic...Read more