The Diving Bell and The Butterfly

If you're looking for a mind-blowing, intriguing and poetic film, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly is a great movie to watch. Based on a true story about a journalist/editor of Elle fashion magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby wakes up from a deep sleep to find out hes paralyzed from head to toe (this disease is called Locked-in Syndrome), with his left eye the only functional body part, he learns to communicate with the blink of his eye and is determined to write a book even under the circumstances of not having the ability to speak or move. This film shows the courage and determination of a man who is still very intelligent, and expresses himself through the caring patience of those who helped him communicate with his eye to write his book.
It's obvious that this film is an autobiography because it's shot in first person point of view and we are in Jean-Dominique's perspective the moment the film opens. Right when the movie opened it caught my attention because the filming was very limited to what you could see on the screen, since it was only what Jean-Dominque could see it was the way his body was positioned and where his one eye can look (he had to get his other eye sowed up because there was an infection). This type of filming kept me wanting more; especially because you don't get to see what Jean-Dominique looks like until you get a bit more into the film. Jean-Dominique was an excellent writer and poet and had a huge imagination. This movie goes from reality to his imagination and the shots of Jean-Dominique's imaginations were beautiful. One image that sticks out to me is when a woman was standing on a hill with trees and a huge forest in the background. Whenever his imagination scenes were over, the pleasant background music comes to an aburpt stop and goes back to a scene of reality. Although this movie is in French with english subtitles, I feel like I could understand it more that way reading the subtitles because it made me focus more on his words and what he was describing since he speaks in such metorphorical terms. I think it's easier to comprehend things when they are written out and these visuals of subtitles and images of his meanings really drew me in!