Comparing The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

The Diving Bell and The Butterfly is a movie based on a true story, about a 42 years old editor of Elle magazine who had a stroke and suffered from a locked- in syndrome named Jean-Dominique. He was a very famous and lovable person….. In this essay, I will be focusing on the camera angels, the flashback, and the inner thoughts to show how it was presented to the viewers and how it is constructed to cinematography. The film relies on the use of varieties camera angles to help tell the story. In the beginning of the film, it was shot from the perspective of Jean-Dominique. The viewers sees the world though Bauby's eyes as he awakes up from his coma and unable to capture what is going on. As the camera moves from one angle to another when Bauby is trying to gain conscious, it shows us, as the audience that we are looking around the new surroundings from his perspective. There were also close-ups of the nurses, doctors and curtains are all blurred to the dazed and confused Bauby. After a few minutes into the scene, we grasp that his vision is blurred not only from his long coma, but also because of his right eye is congested and needs to be sewn shut. Nonetheless, by being inside of Bauby's head for the first portion of the film, it brings the viewers closer to the character and sympathize him, as if they went through that same situation before, and also letting

Throughout the movie, the viewers reaction changes as the scenes changes, and they were able to experience both sadness and happiness through the eyes of Bauby. For example, in the scene when