Diving Bell and The Butterfly
Diving Bell and The Butterfly (2007)
Starring : Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josee Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais
Director : Julian Schnabel
Screenwriter : Ronald Harwood
Watched this movie sometimes last week with Dadi at Blitz Megaplex, Pacific Place. been trying to write a proper review, but things at work always distract me.
Adapted from a french memoir, " Le Schapandre et le Papillon" written by former french Elle Editor-In-Chief Jean-Dominique Bauby.
Jean-Do was living in a good life to the extreme when suddenly in 1995 he became the victim of cerebrovascular accident that cost him a total paralysis. he also incapable of any verbal communication.
The worst part of the accident for Jean-Do was how will he ever made up everything he owe to everyone he loved.
regret.
he felt that he didin’t say a lot of "sorry" to his ex-wife, didn’t say "i love you" much to his childs, didn’t embrace his lover the way she needs it, didn’t take care of his dad the way he supposed to be.
he struggled to learn comunicating using his eyelids to spell the word, letter by letter with the help of team of therapists in Marine Hospital of Berck-Sur-Mer in Northern France.
Bauby then was able to compose, letter by letter, a lyrical and heartbreaking memoir of his life struggle. Bauby died fourteen months after his accident, two days after the memoir publication.
from the first scene, audience will understand why he named it The Diving Bell, we are feeling like we’re inside the diving bell, left alone deep in the dark blue see. noone will hear every single word we say, even when we scream out loud, to say how much we love them, how much we appreciate every beauty things the brought to our life.
up to you, but to me, i won’t wait to be inside "the diving bell" to realise how beautiful my life is, and live to the fullest.
as usual, i always have my very own fav quotes from the movie ~_^
Jean-Dominique Bauby : I decided to stop pitying myself. Other than my eye, two things aren’t paralyzed, my imagination and my memory.
Jean-Dominique Bauby : A poet once said, only a fool laughs when nothing’s funny.
