{"id":1045,"date":"2008-04-29T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/reviews\/movies\/scaphandre-papillon.html"},"modified":"2010-01-22T17:14:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:14:28","slug":"le-scaphandre-et-le-papillon-%e2%80%93-accessing-the-world-through-one-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"<em lang=\"fr\">Le scaphandre et le papillon<\/em> \u2013 Accessing the world through one eye."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The description of this movie sounds scary: the main editor of the French women\u2019s magazine <em>Elle<\/em> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stroke\">ischemic stroke<\/a> that leaves him completely paralyzed. (Time for a nod to French comic culture:) Completely paralyzed? No, not completely paralyzed. A single place of resistance remains. A single organ high up in the head. He can still actively use a single eye. And the accompanying eyelids. Eye and eyelids. This is the way he relates to the world. Even though his hearing (and smell, I think) remains intact, he can only express himself by opening and closing the eyelids of one eye. Not a very optimistic point of departure for a movie. In particular, for a French movie. However, this time we may be educated about the problems of the bourgeoisie, but we are also told a heart-moving story. The way that the main protagonist regains the world is not only grand in itself. It is also shown in a very compassionate and intimate way that still keeps enough distance to respect the dignity of this particular human being \u2013 something that is particularly important because the movie is based on <q>true<\/q> events, as they say. Great setting, great camera, great script, and (remember, this is a French movie after all) some really beautiful women. One need not fear <em>The Diving Bell and the Butterfly<\/em>. Even if the setting is dire indeed. Do not only watch it if you are interested in problems of perception and communication, as I am. Take a heart and watch it, if the opportunity to do that should arise, regardless of what you think about the actual <q>content<\/q> of this movie \u2013 it is not about content, it is about relating to the things and the people we have around us.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0401383\/\"><abbr title=\"Internet Movie Database\">IMDb<\/abbr> entry<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/miramax\/thedivingbellandthebutterfly\/\" title=\"QuickTime plugin required\">Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The description of this movie sounds scary: the main editor of the French women\u2019s magazine Elle has an ischemic stroke that leaves him completely paralyzed. (Time for a nod to French comic culture:) Completely paralyzed? No, not completely paralyzed. A single place of resistance remains. A single organ high up in the head. He can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[71,107],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","category-review","tag-perception","tag-senses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}