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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
★ 7.6 · 1,268 ratings on TMDB
Let your imagination set you free.
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.
DirectorJulian Schnabel
The emergence reading
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
