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You still haven't said how the film-maker should have handled the fact the women in his life were beautiful.

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How much less beautiful should he have made them... I mean I know it's very fine line because if they'd crossed the line (your line) into "ugly" then half the post would've been about that.

For the record... there were things about the film that bothered me... like the trip to Lourdes. What was the point of it? They didn't demonstrate in any way that it had some effect on his life... were we just supposed to see that he thought his girlfriend was nutty? If so, why... where did that thought or realization lead? As a stand alone anecdote it just felt kind of vague and empty... maybe that's it! Maybe it was a metaphor for how he felt.

I also wasn't crazy about JS' artistic interpretations of Bauby's inner/imaginative world. That imagery didn't really resonate for me. I thought the film was much stronger when sticking with his POV and occasional views of other people (like his father... say, what did you think of MVS' performance?).

But overall it was moving just because as a human being, seeing someone overcome such an incredibly - unimaginably emotional and psychologically debilitating - condition to find a way to communicate and express, beautifully, what's it's like to be there and a growing awareness of the beauty he had in his life, was moving. That it was done so well, both by the film-makers and actors only made it more so.

Did you not notice that the impetus for him to express himself thusly came from realizing how much love and beauty he had in his life and how he'd taken it for granted/and or had been willing to throw it away. That he was overwhelmed by the fact that after all that and in his 'un-wantable' condition he was still loved and surrounded with beauty. I'm guessing you probably see that as weakness on the part of the people in his life who loved him... to me it speaks to a basic decency he must have had despite his caddish behaviour.








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