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Rambo was the shit. I plan on seeing There Will Be Blood and Untraceable sometime this week.
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OSUsushichic;1078491; said:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly -- so depressing but amazingly done.

wow. been meaning to go see this. camerawork sounds amazing. first heard about it on NPR interview with director:

NPR: 'Diving Bell' Celebrates Life of the Mind

'Diving Bell' Celebrates Life of the Mind

Listen Now [8 min 18 sec]

All Things Considered, November 30, 2007 ?

Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of French Elle, was 43 years old when he suffered a massive stroke in 1995.

The stroke left him paralyzed ? except for his left eye. That tiny portal became Bauby's means of communication.

The therapist at his hospital came up with a system. She would read through letters of the alphabet, and Bauby would blink when she came to the letter he wanted ? and thus spell out his message.

Bit by excruciating bit ? by blinking ? Bauby dictated a book about his experience, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

That book is now a movie. Its first part is seen completely from Bauby's immobilized perspective: The viewer sees only what he sees.

And it's dizzying to watch: Faces dart in and out of the frame; images blur. His eye has become the camera's lens.

Director Julian Schnabel says that even capturing the blinks required a lot of thought.

For example, sometimes, "you're not really closing your eyes for very long, so it just seems to let you jar the image; it doesn't really eradicate the image," Schnabel tells Melissa Block.

"Basically, there's more than 50 different kind of blinks. And until you start making a movie about a guy blinking, you don't really notice that. You just think the word 'blink' means blink."

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