The Diving Bell and The Butterfly

I saw the trailer for this movie a long time ago and never figure I would want to see it. I remeber seeing it and not understanding the trailer and thinking how it wouldn't be a movie I would understand or want to see. But I feel like it means something that I remember a trailer for a movie that I decided I wouldn't see. It was so interesting and yet haunting, and that's when I decided it wasn't for me. I'm glad I did see it, it made me feel lucky. Kind of lucky, kind of unrealized.
What I loved most about his movie was the editing. Each scene was like a collage, lots of seperate different things brought together to create a meaning bigger than it's self. Little pretty things coming together to make one big beautiful statement. And each small snipet showing how the mind works: first you think of this, which reminds you of that, which felt like this. Lots of metaphorical imagery used, which I always love, like the diving bell and all the butterflies. Even the music just felt incredibly in sync with the characters, the events taking place. It was a very well done film. It felt real and natural. Like it all really was taking place inside someone's head. If you could look into my head and put what was inside on film, it would come out liek that. Snipets and chunks and feelings and quotes. Definetly haunting, that is the perfect adjective I would use to describe this movie. Parts of it are sad, parts are harrowing, parts are beautiful, but all together, it's just haunting.
I actually have alot of mixed feelings about this movie and it's book. On the one hand, it's incredible that someone BLINKED OUT their memoir and it would be horrible- incredibly, intolerably horrible- for anyone to have to go through this, but on the other hand, I feel like if anyone else had written this memoir, if it had just been some poor shmo, it wouldn't have been that interesting. The thing that made it really incredibly interesting is that Jean-Dominique had this incredible, interesting life before it was all taken away. It's a little sureal that all this happened to this man.