U2 song featured in ‘The Diving Bell & the Butterfly’
Whilst watching the new French film The Diving Bell & the Butterfly last night I was delighted to find that ‘Ultraviolet (Light My Way)’ was being played in one of the scenes. The film is superb regardless though, and I urge anyone with an appreciation of independent cinema to see it. It follows the life of the former editor of the French magazine Elle as he tries to cope with living with ‘lock-down syndrome,’ a condition he develops in the wake of a stroke, which leaves him paralysed except for the lid of his left eye, which he uses to communicate by winking. Does it not have an echo of a similar condition experienced by Christopher Nolan, the subject of another U2 song? Altogether now: “I wanna trip inside you head, spend the day there……”
Angela said,
March 13, 2008 @ 11:58 am
There’s a strong U2 connection here–the director of Diving Bell & Butterfly is artist Julian Schnabel. In Million Dollar Hotel, there’s a mention of a missing Schnabel painting, and then the credits reveal that the “tar paintings” were actually done by Schnabel.
I know, I know, I collect the weirdest bits of U2 trivia!
Robin H. B said,
June 13, 2008 @ 7:50 pm
I loved “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, but the movie I’d rather see is “My Stroke of Insight”, which is the amazing bestselling book by Dr Jill Bolte Taylor. It is an incredible story and there’s a happy ending. She was a 37 year old Harvard brain scientist who had a stroke in the left half of her brain. The story is about how she fully recovered, what she learned and experienced, and it teaches a lot about how to live a better life. Her TEDTalk at TED dot com is fantastic too. It’s been spread online millions of times and you’ll see why!