Recent Movies

I saw 3 movies recently, they are 1. "El Laberinto del fauno", 2. "Le Scaphandre et le papillon" and 3. "Into the wild". The last two are based on true stories.

Out of these the one that really moved me was "Le Scaphandre et le papillon". It deals about a man (Jean-Dominique Bauby)who got paralysed and and got locked in to himself, he can see and hear you, but he cant talk, or move any body parts except his left eyelid. And by using his left eyelid and a helper, by blinking at the correct alphabet when spoken in the order of most used, he wrote a book named "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly", this is the English name of the movie too. Quite well taken and makes you feel the pain of the person who is locked in. It is a must watch.

The other movies , El Laberinto del fauno and Into the wild are good movies too, but the first one is a fantasy based one and the second one is based on a man named Christopher McCandless who left home and friends and hitchhiked his way to Alaska and died there by starving. The irony is that he had donated all his money to Oxfam (an organisation deals with poverty)and he himself had starved. When I saw the movie, I felt great about this man, and then later after i read more about him, i learned that he didn't even have a map of the area where stayed till his end, makes me conclude that he was a fool to even attempt something like this without at least a map of the area. He starved within 20 miles of the highway!! Its a shame he wasted his life this way.

Labels: movies, true stories