The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a touching and emotionally charged story about a man, at the height of his life, who his forced to spend the rest of his life trapped in his own body due to a tragic, unconceivable accident. He is forced to see the world through one eye, and live based on his imagination and memories of his lively, exciting past. Throughout his rehabilitation process, he forms close bonds with those around him who have made it their goal to help him to speak and move again. He works to repair broken bonds with his family, and realizes that everything he had taken for granted before his accident is now all that matters to him.
I thought from the moment the credit sequence started that there was going to be something different about this movie, something uniqie that would make it stand out from all other movies that I have seen. And this movie did exactly that. The emotional and the realness that is portrayed through Jean-Do's eye and experience trapped in his own body is nothing like I have ever experience before in any other movie. The amount of empathy I felt for him, and feeling like I could feel everything he was feeling made every scene in this movie so powerful. The flashbacks in this movie really made me understand how this accident essentially saved him from himself, in that he was forced to face the man that he was becoming; a man who took everything in life for granted and lived in the moment. A man who couldn't see what was really important in life. I truly loved this movie and loved the intimiate nature in which it was filmed. It is a movie that has changed my view on life and taking things for granted, and surely a movie that I will never forget.
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