is The Diving Bell + the Butterfly + the link is Javier Bardem, in the Sea Within, which is kind of in the same ball game. + perhaps I'm the world's biggest curmudgeon but I didn't find this film one bit uplifting, I found it really, really depressing, like Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Get Your Gun I read when I was a kid. While I watched this movie, I found myself wondering if anyone would have cared if Jean-Do had been a janitor, rather than a playboy editor of Elle mag. In any case, I did google the book it was based on + even though Julian Schnabel truly is an artist + the visuals of this movie were extremely artistic, I got more feeling for the author, Jean-Dominique Bauby from a cursory glance at the Amazon site, then I got from watching the whole movie. And my next movie in the New Year is so going to be a feel good movie.
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