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lelibertaire  ·  3419 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Movie Club - Voting Thread #19 - Free Choice

I feel bad for beating tacocat to the Hubski Movie Club throne, so to make up for it I'll also steal tacocat's requested submission! :D

Taco wanted The Diving Bell and the Butterfly as well as The Theory of Everything to be a sort of double feature this week for having similar themes.

That's fine with me if everyone else wants that! But if you want to stick to one movie that's fine too.

I'll reply to this comment with the movie names and just share what you prefer.





tacocat  ·  3419 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ahh, now you stole my thread submission! Life is horrible.

Hubski Total Paralysis Double Feature

The Theory of Everything is of course the Stephen Hawking biopic from last year. It's good but I didn't feel it explored the experience of losing control of one's body. Hawking gets stuck in a shirt and has a fantasy about picking up a pen but it shows how hard his disability was on his wife more than it does on him.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is based on a memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby. He had a massive stroke that left him with locked-in syndrome. He can only move one eye. It's entirely from his perspective and does a much better job of exploring the psychology of losing one's body while retaining the mind. It's also in French, so nuts to that for a bunch of people, but I swear it's good.

lelibertaire  ·  3419 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Both

lelibertaire  ·  3419 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The Theory of Everything

lelibertaire  ·  3419 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The Diving bell and the Butterfly