True story: Author and
Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, age 43, suffered a stroke in 1995 that rendered him almost completely paralyzed, though his abilities to think and communicate were unimpaired. In this debilitated state he actually DICTATED HIS ENTIRE AUTOBIOGRAPHY by blinking his left eye. If you're like me, though that is decidedly amazing, it also sounds like it makes for a really
really boring movie.
Fortunately whoever made this movie has a better imagination than I do, so it was more than just two hours of a man blinking one eye. It was actually a pretty good (if understandably somber) movie.
Here's Bauby's one statement that impressed me the most: "I have decided to never feel sorry for myself again."
I kind of feel like now I'm required to watch
My Left Foot.
I thought this movie was amazing. I read the book too and was just blown away by what he did with ONE EYE!
ReplyDeleteI KNOW!! I can't even imagine the patience that must have taken, both from him and from his amanuensis.
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