How does the narrative of the film and its structure reflect the key themes and messages of this story?
The monotonous narrative of the film reflects the life of Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffered a stroke leading to locked-in syndrome. His life is portrayed through the repetitiveness of the films structure in how he lives out his days doing the same thing emphasising how he is restricted in his own body, only capable of blinking one eye in which is they key to how he communicates. The non-chronically narrative in the film is reflected throughout, by the use of flashbacks -when showing Jean's life before the stroke, and is also reflected through dream sequences for example his dreams of the 'diving bell' which is a portrayal of himself in which its represents his body in how he is unable to move and also the dream sequences of the 'butterfly' is also a portrayal of himself but of his mind. In which carries connotations of freedom and creativity.
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