I think the most amazing aspect of this film is that it doesn’t feel like something made for the Hallmark Channel. Yes, the story itself is sad (there are numerous times where I said “I would want to be shot if I were him”) but the movie doesn’t bring you down. Conversely it also isn’t necessarily uplifting – sure, the guy pulled himself up out of his sadness and got to the point where he could write a book but I don’t think that point of the movie was to make everyone else feel better about their lives. We did see his transition from the depths of despair to a point where he could survive from one day to the next. He never did seem to lose his sense of humor either – he still had certain feelings (particularly around the attractive females in the movie). In the end it was a fascinating (and often funny) look at how it might feel to be trapped in your body. I could not imagine telling the story any better than it was told.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Movie title: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Movie description: The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Date published: 2021-01-22
Director(s): Julian Schnabel
Actor(s): Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz López Garmendia, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marina Hands, Max von Sydow, Isaach De Bankolé, Emma de Caunes, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Gérard Watkins, Nicolas Le Riche, Théo Sampaio, Fiorella Campanella, Talina Boyaci, Anne Alvaro, Françoise Lebrun, Zinedine Soualem, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Agathe de La Fontaine
Genre: Drama
My Review
I think the most amazing aspect of this film is that it doesn’t feel like something made for the Hallmark Channel. Yes, the story itself is sad (there are numerous times where I said “I would want to be shot if I were him”) but the movie doesn’t bring you down. Conversely it also isn’t necessarily uplifting – sure, the guy pulled himself up out of his sadness and got to the point where he could write a book but I don’t think that point of the movie was to make everyone else feel better about their lives. We did see his transition from the depths of despair to a point where he could survive from one day to the next. He never did seem to lose his sense of humor either – he still had certain feelings (particularly around the attractive females in the movie). In the end it was a fascinating (and often funny) look at how it might feel to be trapped in your body. I could not imagine telling the story any better than it was told.
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My Review - 8/10
8/10
