The diving Bell and the Butterfly

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Le scaphandre et le papillon is a flm by Julien Schnabel is a film that looks at the true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who was completely paralyzed except for the use of his left eye. The film demonstrates a surprisingly uplifting tone of triumph as Bauby is able to escape his imprisonment within his body by taking trips in his mind to fantastic places, and he is able to blink out his memoir despite of his handicap. Like most french cinema this film is not based in plot and is centered around the aesthetics of the shots instead of clarity of storyline.