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* FirstPersonDyingPerspective: The film is almost told exclusively from the first-person perspective of its subject, stroke victim Jean-Dominique Bauby, who is suffering from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome Locked-in syndrome]] and can only move his left eyelid. Despite this, he manages to write a memoir; Bauby dies of pneumonia just two days after its publication.
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Bauby's eye was sewn shut because it wasn't irrigating properly and was at risk of becoming septic, not because it was infected. And he died of pneumonia, not a heart attack.
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* AndIMustScream: The movie centers around Jean-Dominique Bauby having to cope with falling victim to this fate, as a stroke leaves him paralyzed everywhere except his eyes (and one of them is sewn up early on due to infection, so he can only use one eye). It's suggested that it is temporary (the doctors keep talking about how they hope to help him eventually regain the ability to move, [[spoiler:though the epilogue reveals that he died of a heart attack before this could happen,]] but he still ends up like this long enough to ''write a book'' about his feelings. It also bears mentioning that this was BasedOnATrueStory.
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* AndIMustScream: The movie centers around Jean-Dominique Bauby having to cope with falling victim to this fate, as a stroke leaves him paralyzed everywhere except his eyes (and one of them is sewn up early on due to infection, when it stops irrigating properly, so he can only use one eye). It's suggested that it is temporary (the doctors keep talking about how they hope to help him eventually regain the ability to move, [[spoiler:though the epilogue reveals that he died of a heart attack pneumonia before this could happen,]] happen]]), but he still ends up like this long enough to ''write a book'' about his feelings. It also bears mentioning that this was BasedOnATrueStory.
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The story follows Bauby, (Creator/MathieuAmalric) who suffers a stroke that leaves him almost completely paralyzed and having to live with only being able to move his left eye to see what is going on around him.
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The story follows Bauby, (Creator/MathieuAmalric) Bauby (Creator/MathieuAmalric), who suffers a stroke that leaves him almost completely paralyzed and having to live with only being able to move his left eye to see what is going on around him.
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''The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'' (French: ''Le Scaphandre et le Papillon'') 2007 French biographical drama directed by Creator/JulianSchnabel.
The story follows a man (Creator/MathieuAmalric) who suffers a stroke that leaves him almost completely paralyzed and having to live with only being able to move his left eye to see what is going on around him.
The story follows a man (Creator/MathieuAmalric) who suffers a stroke that leaves him almost completely paralyzed and having to live with only being able to move his left eye to see what is going on around him.
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''The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'' (French: ''Le Scaphandre et le Papillon'') 2007 French biographical drama directed by Creator/JulianSchnabel.
Creator/JulianSchnabel and based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's 1997 memoir of the same name.
The story followsa man Bauby, (Creator/MathieuAmalric) who suffers a stroke that leaves him almost completely paralyzed and having to live with only being able to move his left eye to see what is going on around him.
The story follows
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A 2007 french biographical drama directed by Creator/JulianSchnabel that has a man (Creator/MathieuAmalric) suffering a stroke that leaves him almost completely paralyzed and having to live with only being able to move his left eye to see what is going on around him.
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''The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'' (French: ''Le Scaphandre et le Papillon'') 2007
The story follows a man (Creator/MathieuAmalric)
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* POVCam: The film is partially shown in this manner, using a tilt-shift focus (which picks out sharp objects in an otherwise blurry image) to depict the viewpoint of Bauby, who suffers a stroke that among other debilitations leaves him with the use of only one eye.
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* POVCam: The film is partially shown in this manner, using a tilt-shift focus (which picks out sharp objects in an otherwise blurry image) to depict the viewpoint of Bauby, who suffers a stroke that among other debilitations leaves him with the use of only one eye.eye.
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A 2007 french biographical drama directed by Creator/JulianSchnabel that has a man (Creator/MathieuAmalric) suffering a stroke that leaves him almost completely paralyzed and having to live with only being able to move his left eye to see what is going on around him.
The movie also stars Creator/EmmanuelleSeigner, Creator/AnneConsigny, Creator/MarieJoseeCroze, Creator/PatrickChesnais, and Creator/MaxVonSydow.
It was released on May 23, 2007.
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!Tropes for the film:
* AndIMustScream: The movie centers around Jean-Dominique Bauby having to cope with falling victim to this fate, as a stroke leaves him paralyzed everywhere except his eyes (and one of them is sewn up early on due to infection, so he can only use one eye). It's suggested that it is temporary (the doctors keep talking about how they hope to help him eventually regain the ability to move, [[spoiler:though the epilogue reveals that he died of a heart attack before this could happen,]] but he still ends up like this long enough to ''write a book'' about his feelings. It also bears mentioning that this was BasedOnATrueStory.
* HospitalHottie: Bauby has two very attractive nurses helping him out. It's the least he could ask for considering the crap he has to endure throughout the film.
* POVCam: The film is partially shown in this manner, using a tilt-shift focus (which picks out sharp objects in an otherwise blurry image) to depict the viewpoint of Bauby, who suffers a stroke that among other debilitations leaves him with the use of only one eye.
The movie also stars Creator/EmmanuelleSeigner, Creator/AnneConsigny, Creator/MarieJoseeCroze, Creator/PatrickChesnais, and Creator/MaxVonSydow.
It was released on May 23, 2007.
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!Tropes for the film:
* AndIMustScream: The movie centers around Jean-Dominique Bauby having to cope with falling victim to this fate, as a stroke leaves him paralyzed everywhere except his eyes (and one of them is sewn up early on due to infection, so he can only use one eye). It's suggested that it is temporary (the doctors keep talking about how they hope to help him eventually regain the ability to move, [[spoiler:though the epilogue reveals that he died of a heart attack before this could happen,]] but he still ends up like this long enough to ''write a book'' about his feelings. It also bears mentioning that this was BasedOnATrueStory.
* HospitalHottie: Bauby has two very attractive nurses helping him out. It's the least he could ask for considering the crap he has to endure throughout the film.
* POVCam: The film is partially shown in this manner, using a tilt-shift focus (which picks out sharp objects in an otherwise blurry image) to depict the viewpoint of Bauby, who suffers a stroke that among other debilitations leaves him with the use of only one eye.
