Movie Critique Of The Movie 'Awakenings'

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Movie Critique of “Awakenings”

The Writer: Oliver Sacks

The Director: Penny Marshal

Awakenings is a 1990 American drama film that is based on a true story, adapted from the 1973 book by Dr. Oliver Sacks, a clinical neurologist in New York hospital in 1969 used the experiment L-dopa to awaken a group of post-encephalitic patients. These survivors of a post- World War I sleeping sickness epidemic had lived in a state of catatonia but remained “alive inside” for decades. In order to understand the movie, it is important to convey basic information about encephalitis lethargica also known as “sleeping sickness”. From 1917 to 1928, encephalitis lethargica was epidemic

Sayer and Robert De Niro as Leonard. This movie is a true story and it is all about of a well known neurologist who unfaltering to use an experimental drug in the late 1960s to see if he might “wake” a group of patients that had fallen into a sleep-like state in the 1920s and 30s, appropriate to a horrible disease that had spread inexplicably throughout the United States. In behavior that are still not understood, this disease caused by a virus, attacked the brains and nervous system of the citizens who became its victims even though they are normal when they born. Awakenings is about

This is my favorite scene because it shows that the film doesn’t only focus on the particular disease but the disease of indifference also. What makes life more simpler and happier that one cannot find in the facts of science and medicine? It is the love and compassionate that makes life so simpler and yet so fulfilling. The joys of life that one can attain and live fully is given by the people we loved and loved us. Through this love, it can cure the disease of indifference.
We learned from the movie to appreciate the simple things in life that we take for granted, from taking a walk by yourself or reading a book or even just brushing your teeth. This movie make us realize that we are very blessed because we had given a chance to enjoy life not like the others who can’t walk by themselves. We really thank God for giving us healthy life because it is one of the most precious gift that we