Analyzing The Movie 'Awakenings'

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Awakenings (1990) directed by Penny Marshall is a movie that shows true to life events Of Dr. Oliver Sacks fictionalized as Dr. Malcolm Sayer. It is based on a book written by Dr. Oliver Sacks which is titled as “Awakenings”. He wrote the book during his course of work in Bronx Mental Hospital which is about his efforts to cure some of the people of the hospital suffering the great “sleeping sickness syndrome” which was an endemic during the 1920s. The movie is about Dr. Sayer effort to cure his patients from what he characterized as extreme rigidity caused by Parkinsonism when he saw one of his patients seemingly catch her glasses when her glasses fell. He pursued the doubtful board of the doctors of the hospital to let him prescribe a medicine to his …show more content…

During the course of the film the viewer may fathom a different perspective to life just by watching how Leonard dealt with his situation all throughout the movie. “Who are we, anyway? How much of the self we treasure so much is simply a matter of good luck, of being spared in a minefield of neurological chance? If one has no hope, which is better: To remain hopeless, or to be given hope and then lose it again?” Ebert R. (1990) Awakenings Movie Review Being Awakened: How Leonard Lowe Dealt with His Situation and gave a New Meaning To Our Life. Critical Analysis 10/17/2015 Joshua R. Robles MLS 1-3 & Film Summary. This is one of Roger Ebert’s quotes when he reviewed the movie “Awakenings” this quote sends out a message about how someone can realize a different look in their life once they watched the movie. The movie “Awakenings” is one of the eloquent movies that send out a special message to everyone; a message that can be seen through how Leonard Lowe dealt with his situation although out the movie. The movie started by showing a young Leonard Lowe who was slowly succumbing to the symptoms of the sleeping sickness

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