The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly French Le scaphandre et le papillon is a 2007 biographical drama film based on JeanDominique Baubys memoir of the same name. The film depicts Baubys life after suffering a massive stroke, onDecember 1995, at the age of 43, which left him with a condition known as lockedin syndrome. The condition paralyzed him from the neck down.

The first third of the film is told from the main characters, JeanDominique Bauby Mathieu Amalric, or JeanDo as his friends call him, first person perspective. The film opens as Bauby wakes from his threeweek coma in a hospital in BercksurMer, France. After an initial rather overoptimistic analysis from one doctor, a neurologist explains that he has lockedin syndrome, an extremely rare condition in which the patient is almost completely physically paralyzed, but remains mentally normal. At first, the viewer primarily hears Baubys thoughts he thinks he is speaking but no one hears him, which are inaccessible to the other characters who are seen through his one functioning eye.A speech therapist and physical therapist try to help Bauby become as functional as possible. Bauby cannot speak, but he develops a system of communication with his speech and language therapist by blinking his left eye as she reads a list of letters to laboriously spell out his messages, letter by letter. ........

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