Review of "Awakenings"

The movie “Awakenings” is a touching movie with a touching plot line and characterization. The movie tries to show how one doctor will do anything to help people who have not experienced life in any regards. “Awakenings” helps us understand why we must be willing to challenge conventional wisdom to help those in need. This movie is an inspiring story about a doctor willing to push the limits, it is best examined through the plot line, the characterization, and some of the drawbacks of the movie Awakenings. The movie begins in 1920 with a young Leonard Lowe showing outwards signs of disease still yet unknown. The movie then jumps to 1969, where Dr. Malcolm Sayer works at a Chronic Hospital in New York City. During his time at the hospital, he begins to have a theory that people suffering from post-encephalitis can be cured, so he begins his experiments to prove his theory. After his tests, he believes that a drug named L-DOPA will help his patients, he gives Leonard the drug and he wakes up, which convinces the hospital donors to give more money, and in the end all of Sayer’s patients wake up. However, the medicine begins to wear off, and the condition returns, in the end all the patients return into their cationic state. The plot line has very high points of emotional distress, but there is also times of light hearted fun to relieve the pressure of the conflict. In the first scene of the movie we are back into 1920s New York, with Leonard and his friends, but Leonard is suffering from the encephalitis disease, and the subsequent aftermath of his disease. The movie then moves on to Dr Sayer who is hired just out of convenience for the hospital. We then move on over an unspecific period of time as Dr Sayer is at the hospital, but he is making progress with his patients. Second, there is an underlying love story with Dr Sayer and his nurse Eleanor. However, the