Tuesday, September 4, 2012

blog #2 the diving bell and the butterfly


Title : The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Rating : PG-13
Run time : , 1 hr. 54min.
Director : Julian Schnabel
 
Link : http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/diving_bell_and_the_butterfly/

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 For about first 20 minutes, all that the screen shows us is small circular world that is being seen from Jean-Dominic Bauby’s eyes. If you manage to keep the film run throughout this stifling scene, you may empathy Bauby’s status that he has diagnosed an locked-in syndrome.
 
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 The reviewer gives his final impression as a discomforting but inspiring struggle for one enduring. Bauby, the editor of French Elle , struggles to communicate and connect with the outer world through not his uncomfortable ‘eye’, but mind’s eye. The ocular activity make him being able to write his own story by blink eyes for one year and 3 months, six hours a day. As the frequency of blink is getting slowed down, the blackout of his consciousness is getting to leave.
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 This film is very visual because the only window connecting between world and Bauby is his eye that shows what he sees. Director uses his skill as a painter to assemble a collage of fantastical images to reveal the exquisite physical wreck that Bauby has become.  
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This film is completely based on true-life story. The reviewer states, “perfectly blends the tragic with the triumphant.” He inspires you to flash back your life and tell us how to embrace what we are facing now.

 

1 comment:

Amy Bolaski said...


Such. an. awesome. movie. And book.

I'm having some trouble following this. It needs a bit of editing. It appears there's quite a bit of summary of the film itself here and just a few mentions of the review as opposed to a paragraph by paragraph analysis.

Do you want to take another stab at it?