Written wing

Adaptation of the famous book by Jean-Dominique Bauby'ego open X-rays, their background appear the initial subtitle. The man is very fragile, biologically limited, indicates viewers Julien Schnabel, while clearly self-reflexive film encapsulates the frame: it is just an attempt to reconstruct the experience provided in the book, he says, attempt to reconstruct the crossing by Bauby "suit". As we get through hotspots map faithful body, but incomplete, so the faithful, but the images are incomplete thoughts and feelings, Jean-Dominique. Schnabel tries to show how his character (Mathieu Amalric) matures to this excess "suit", and we try to have empathy with the experience this way. The first sequence of the film is shot from the perspective of lying after stroke patient (poignant images Janusz Kaminski). "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" is a film and therefore the contact with other people, an agreement with another, about overcoming the border experience. The whole story is, after attenuated by almost completely paralyzed patient-breaking their "closure" by blinking an eyelid: one blink for yes, two for no, one - an indication on the phone with the number of exchanged by the "caller", which will make the whole word, two - devised the end of the phrase. It is thanks to blink mozolnemu we can try to touch his existence. By issuing a book, Bauby proving to all who knew him as the chief editor of "Elle" and after finding it in the hospital repeated the rumor about "a vegetable" that, in spite of total immobility, despite the "syndrome closing" functions intellectually as well as before the accident. Or even better, since intensified its sensitivity.
The book was the voice of a man who wanted to mark its existence was proof of his life. Schnabel suggests that it is "writing" was the most important lifeline for Jean-Dominique. Thanks to the "writing" - and also thanks to the people who care for the author, who help him, which it is close - Bauby saves what makes him human. The need to adhere to what to believe a particular person is her humanity, says in the film outright.
And if that thing turns out to Jean-Dominique ability to communicate, transfer their experience when working on a book she keeps hope in him and becomes the primary performance of his tragic life - this is the effect of this literary work and its film adaptation are a great tribute for art.
Visual feast
So piercing voice heard happens very rarely. .