The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Reviews

9.7/10

É como afundar no próprio corpo e achar na mente a única fuga. A paralisia te asfixia ao longo do filme como um afogamento ao ar livre. Um embate visceral entre a imaginação e a carne.

🫎🫎🫎🫎1/2

My fifth film for my film narrative class.

This was absolute nightmare fuel.

No wonder this won best directing in the 2008 Cannes film festival. Being through the perspective of jean-do was horrifying. I couldn’t even begin to imagine.

The writing was phenomenal as well. I know the pacing was slow, but it was ok because the non-linear storytelling made it interesting. Also the script was insane. This movies script felt like pure poetry.

The score tore me apart as well. That piano theme was so beautifully daunting.

A beautiful and harrowing true story, the human mind and body is so unique and horrifying. This film does such a phenomenal job of making the viewer feel locked within a body.

Good movie, but I wouldn’t watch it again

crap

9/10.

7.0/10
Very unique film style and very unique storytelling.
Trying to decide if I love this movie or not, can’t tell.

If you like great cinematography you’ll be obsessed with the double exposures, the compositions, and the inventive camera angles. What if you couldn’t say what you mean to say? Most filmmakers today might only address that with horror. Instead Schnabel offers abundant beauty.

Tragic but inspiring. Plan to read the book. Slow in parts.

Such a beautiful and heartbreaking true story about a man who after suffering complete paralysis after a stroke, writes his entire autobiography by blinking!

Beautiful story