Imagine your living your perfectly normal life...then...one day...driving with your son...you begin to have an attack. You're not sure what's happening to you, but you know something's wrong...very wrong. You manage to pull the car over before you black out. When you awake (if you can call it being awake) you're completely paralyzed from head-to-toe with one exception...your left eye. Your mind is fine...you understand everything going on around you...you can see everything around you --- only you can't move or speak. Is that life? Could you keep your sanity? How would you cope? How would you communicate? How would you feel?
That's exactly what happened to Jean-Dominique Bauby - the highly successful editor of France's Elle magazine. THE DIVING BELL & THE BUTTERFLY tells his story, and lets us feel his pain. Julian Schnabel's direction brilliantly lets the viewer see the world through Bauby's eye. Even more amazing...the story is based on Bauby's own biography which he wrote one letter at a time through a system of translated blinks of his left eye. A movie that is both heartbreaking and inspiring. 4 of 5 hs
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment