Knowing that I saw the movie one weekend night, I finally realized that it wasn't my problem.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. 2007 French film.
Jean Dominique Bauby (1952-1997), former editor-in-chief of ELLE, France. After waking up from a coma due to a sudden stroke, he was paralyzed and unable to speak, but his mind and consciousness were the same as before. The cornea of the right eye is infected and the right eyelid is sutured, so the only action that can be done is to blink the left eyelid. It was by blinking his eyelid that he wrote a book called The Diving Bell and the Butterfly while he was paralyzed. The film of the same name is about what happened after he was paralyzed.
The camera lens is his eyes, and the voiceover is his heart. Memory and imagination are all he has at the moment. So there are his memories and imaginations in the picture. There is a lot of humor: for example, when he heard that he was in a vegetative state, what kind of vegetative did he say in his mind? Radishes, potatoes or pickled cucumbers. Two beautiful therapists approached his room, and he could only see their breasts as they stood, and he wondered if he had come to heaven? People can't help but laugh at heart.
The first words said in this way by blinking are: I want to die.
"Today I realized that my whole life was nothing but a series of failures, women who couldn't love, opportunities that I didn't take, happy moments that passed by, games that knew the end and not being able to bet on the winner. I'm blind. Are you stupid? Or must there be a catastrophe to recognize your true nature?" The background is a melodious piano music and an image of an iceberg slowly collapsing. It's like being immersed in the dark bottom, wearing a diving cap, unable to see the light and unable to breathe.
At the end he is introduced as "Jean Dominique Bauby, 43 years old, respected journalist, father, freedom advocate. Planned to write a novel of revenge for women, Diving Bell and Butterfly Died 10 days after publication, in 1997 March 9". The background is a thick boy and the ice and snow that melted into the sea re-solidified into icebergs. He finally became a butterfly in his heart.
There was also such a movie about a vegetative person a few years ago. The sea inside. But no book was born there, and the whole movie is about fighting for the legality of euthanasia. This one is actually The sea inside. Is it a diving bell or a butterfly?
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