"Diving Bell and Butterflies" is adapted from the original work of the same name by Jean-Dominique Bauby, the former editor-in-chief of French fashion magazine "Elle": Bobby, who is proud of his life, suffered bad luck in middle age and suffered a stroke Suffering from a rare atresia syndrome, he became a special patient who can only communicate with the outside world through his left eye. As a biographical book with only 40,000 words, the book did not write a lot of eloquence, because it was created in a very special way, relying on the blinking of Bobby's left eyelid to complete the writing. (The method is not as advanced as the language synthesizer used by the physicist Hawking to communicate with people. It needs the assistance of manual recording. Simply put, Bobby blinks to indicate the letter he wants, and repeats it. Compose words and sentences).
The film tells not the usual story of disabled people. Although Bobby's head is tilted because of the disease, he does not think he is a vegetable. Knowing that there is not much to come, he spent hundreds of days in meditation, thinking and reflection on life, emotions and memories. He saw the beautiful things in the world with his left eye, because he couldn't touch it, he could only intoxicate it through beautiful imagination, and aftertaste his feelings. He was unwilling, so he had a book and then a movie. Schnabel used his painter's artistic intuition to capture the landscape that exists in front of Bobby's eyes or in his mind, and through flashback fragments, he composed the man's past and present. The film’s photography is especially worthy of praise. Bobby’s vision is expressed as touching, with a heavy and sleepy left eyelid, and various compositions appearing in a subjective perspective; the faint yellow sky and large low-floating white clouds. The sea of breeze, children and women, a feast of love and love, the editing between them is free and smooth.
Butterfly means colorful and beautiful colors, and it is also the final driving force of Bobby's thoughts. It wants to rescue Bobby who is in the underwater diving bell. It should be said that when different people saw the book and watched the movie, Bobby and his butterfly succeeded. The heavy diving bell imprisoned his body, but it would not be his soul.
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