The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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Beauty in Human Suffering - terry connolly
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This is a very tough one to watch, bring the Kleenex as you will be teary eyed throughout until one scene with Max von Sydow on the phone to his paralysed son will have you blubbering and sniffeling like a two year old. This one scene with Von Sydow and Amalric is, in my opinion at least, the best piece of emotional acting you will ever see. From the very start your emotions are primed, simply because you are the main character, you've spent the first part of the movie in his head, stuck with him, feeling what he feels. Once the filming occurs externally you are left as him. This transition is done very smoothly, taking you from inside his head as his spirit is crushed to a mix of inside and outside as his determination grows until finally most of the shots are from outside as he has learned to interact with the world again. The cinematography is excellent, and even an almost irrelivant character, the imagined ghost of the hospital founder, has a personality and beauty that is gotten accross without dialogue. You will laugh at times, and as i said you will cry (unless you're made of stone) but you will leave, as everyone in the packed screening i was at did; silent and overwhelmed. It's a profound experience, even if it takes a while to hit you.
Review published on the 26 February 2008 16:41
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