Better

It gets better. You just have to give it time. If it's playing in a cinema near you, make time to go and watch THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY.

Human stories are the best stories of all. The best thing about TDBATB is not only the remarkable story of Mr. Bauby's 'locked-in' syndrome and his attempt of self-expression, but the lightness of how the story was told. There was no tear jerking moments, time of pity, only amazement and point-blank reality. It is heartfelt, soulful and at times, funny.

It's a condition that forces you to live in solitude; literally because you're almost always in conversation with yourself. When you are alone, you can not help thinking about where we are, and how we turned out to be the human being we never desired to be. The various twists and turns mess you up, puts you down, swirl you around to become somebody else. You might not like who you become.

All of a sudden the world is seen through a different view point. The camera work lent us Bauby's vantage point. We felt Bauby's desperation because we see his tears on screen; because the image gets blurry. But we regain focus and life goes on. In Bauby's case, he went on to tell his story, got it published and then died.