Review of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) by Hannah P — 07 Jul 2009
It is a truly marvoulous story, but he dies without being able to make amends to anything. Boring and annoying because it's all in French and has English subtitle's. Slow and dull because it's all from the point of view of someone having had a stroke and ending up waking up from a three month commer. The man goes from being so young and normal, to be sooo boring, dull, locked up, old and damaged, but that makes it amazing and a very moving film to watch because it shows you what a stroke is like and can really do to you. That's it makes it become terrifing. There unstopable and as far as I am aware they don't know how to cure stroke's or how they properly come on and whether we can avoid them by doing certian things or by not doing certian things or by taking or by not taking certian things.
My Grandma's had a few strokes and they think my Grandad finally died of that even though he was fine, but a bit sick and stressed over my Grandma. So this film is interesting to watch and see how easy the process of a stroke can take hold of someone and to go into the mind of the individual with a stroke. What goes on in the man's mind is quiet often beautiful... It's all written in a book about his thoughts and his life, under the same title, I have it and have the book yet to read.
In the film it shows how they create and write the book whilst the man is in a stroke. And it's cleverly done. By the nurses and those he loves reading the alphabets and with him winking to say yes or no to them.
This I recommend to all those interested in how life works and in who like to be deep and thoughtful about life. That and those who find such illnesses interesting to watch in a film, like my mum does whose a Phisotherapist. So for any or nurse and doctors who are training I recommend this film to you. Perhaps a loner film to watch or group one if your training for the mentioned above. For age wise I'd say 12+ and upwards, but properly 15+ would like it more....
This review of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) was written by Hannah P on 07 Jul 2009.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly has generally received very positive reviews.
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