“Le Scaphandre et le papillon” or Diving Bells and the Butterfly is a brilliant French Movie directed by Julian Schnabel. Released in 2007, produce by famous European movie company Pathe Renn Production. The movie based on the autobiography of Jean-Dominique Bauby with same title. The movie duration is 112 minutes. The screenplay writer, Ronald Harwood success to won BAFTA 2007 and nominated in Academy Awards 2007 with his work in this film. Before that, Ronald already win Academy Award for his screenplay in “The Pianist”(2002). The Director, Julian Schnabel was success to come out as the best director in 2007 Cannes Movie Festival and Golden Globe 2007. He is also nominated in Academy Awards 2007 for the best directing.
The movie is told about life and death of Jean-Dominique Bauby or Jean Do (Mathieu Almaric). Jean Do is a chief editor of famous fashion magazine Elle. Jean Do have a very good life until one day on 8 Desember 1995, he have to deal with reality that he have a rare case of disease. His disease called “locked-in syndrome”. All of his body can’t able to move except his left eye. The doctors and specialist try harder to heal Jean-Do. But, Jean-Do too bussy to hear his ego and anger about his condition. Everything will become negative for Jean-Do that time, specially, his life. All looks sucks for him. He doesn’t want to cooperate with the medic team. Two terapists send to help him through his crisis. They are Henriette (Marie Josse Croze), speech therapist,who will teach him the communication code, his physiotherapist, Marie Lopez (Olatz López Garmendia), and Dr. Lepage Patrick Chesnais), a neurosurgeon who will supervise Jean-Do's care. Besides the hospital's therapist team, there is also Céline (Emmanuelle Seigner), his estranged partner and the mother of his three children.
Jean-Do starts to thing positive about his condition. He wants to cooperate with the medic team and start to learn a method to communicate from Henriette, the speech therapist. The method makes Jean-Do able to communicate with other person. Henriette will be begins reciting this alphabet (ESARINTULOMDPCFBVHGJQZYXKW), and he blinks when she says the needed letter. Once a word is begun, the therapist can often guess the word after a few letters.
Jean-Do becomes more optimists after and finally success to learn the method. Suddenly, he remember that he still have a contract with publisher to write one book. He takes that opportunity to write about himself in a one book with his left eye. Jean-Do writes the book word by word with a help from the Assistant that publisher send to help him finish the book. Her name is Claude (Anne Consigny). The progress is painstaking: only one to one-and-a-half pages of text per day. Jean-Do develops a very close relationship with Claude, to the point that she seems to fall in love with him. In the end of story we will be know that the book finally success to be publish on March 6th 1997. It is just ten days before he die on March 10th 2008.
The movie also show us about life of Jean-Do in past, conflict between Jean-Do and his family, his relationship with his dad, and many more.
Actually, in 1997, there is a documentary made by Jean- Jacques Beineix about Jean-Dominique Bauby. The title is “Assigne a Residence”. Produce for channel France2. It’s released just two days before he die, 14th March 1997 with 27 minutes of duration.
The Diving Bells and Butterfly is a wonderful film. For me, it is one of the best films I ever have seen. My favorites scene is in the beginning of this film and last part of this film. In the beginning, Julian Schnabel use point of view camera angle to make the audience feel what Jean-Do feel. It makes the audience feel to be one part with Jean-Do. Specially, in the very beginning when Jean-Do asked by the doctor to spell his name and he already say it but there is nobody hear him talk. And then, he realizes that he can’t speak anymore. That scene is really making the audience have a deep feeling to the character. Another favorite of mine is in the last part, part when Jean-Do takes a ride his son and get the “locked-in syndrome”. The music and the visual when he gets the syndrome, for me it is a genius one. Even the music is a happy music; we can feel deeper with the soundtrack in the movie.
Diving Bells and the Butterfly basically talk about life. Not just Jean-Do’s life but all people. You, me, everybody is talk about in this movie. The Diving Bells and Butterfly teach many things about life to the audience.(narasyadha)
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pinjem dong nars. haha
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