Last evening, we watched The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, during class. The movie opened up to a series of images that went from incredibly blurry to clear and crisp, then back to blurry. The audience realizes that we are Jean-Dominique Baudy position. Jean-Dominique (Jean-Do to friends) had been in a coma and suddenly woke out of it. Yet, he has an acute paralysis diesease, known as locked-in syndrome, which leaves him controlless from his head to his toes. The only remaining body part in his control are his eyes. The rest of the story is him remembering his previous healthy life and attempting to rehabilitate from accident. From a series of positive and hopeful nurses, to previous women in his life, and some friends, Jean-Do begins to realize his current world is very different from his previous one and begins to accept his new "normal" lifestyle.
I would say that this movie is tres bon ("very good", in french). Personally, I think I was half distracted with them speaking French because I could kind of understand them. (Mimi-we should watch this movie together! Vous regardez les film avec moi, s'il vous plait! Thanks to summer French class, I was brushed up and ready to watch). This movie, regardless if you speak French or not, was beautifully sad. This man is completely depedent on other people, which he is not used to and also feels helpless. I think I liked the parts where Jean-Do realizes his regrets, like he could have been a better father, and where he begins to love again, like how he takes trips to the lighthouse and lives through his imagination. Overall, this movie is wonderfully moving in the fact that a person, who is completely paralyzed, begins to become a human and experiences regular human emotions of great joys and deep sadnesses. Le film est tres bon, mais non tres bien parce ce c'est retarder, un pou. J'aime The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, au revior!
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