Awakening Movie Analysis

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The movie Awakening is a film about catatonic patients who get a chance to claim their lives again. Several people experience awakenings in their lives during this movie, including, doctors, patients, and sometimes the audience. Some realise the patients they treat are people, others, they're not living their life to its fullest, and lastly, some experience a literal awakening. In this film an important life lesson is learned for everyone. This life lesson is learned in many different ways for many different people. The film Awakenings main character is Dr.Sayer, played by Robin Williams. He experiences an awakening near the end of the movie because of the catatonic patients he cares for throughout the movie. Dr.Sayer slowly learns that he is very good with people …show more content…

Sayer and the way he works with his patients. In the beginning, you observe two nurses who clearly hate their job and treat patients poorly. Nurse Castillo acts just about the same other than her doing her job correctly. When Dr. Sayer begins making progress with the catatonic patients, you see their attitudes for work become increasingly better and patient treatment become better. Because of the progress with the catatonic patients, the nurses learn they are real people who deserve to be treated with respect and cared for properly. The most important characters in the movie are the catatonic patients, who experience a literal awakening. The catatonic patients of the hospital in The Bronx were given L-Dopa dosages which had “woken” them up from their catatonic state. When woken up, the hospital becomes more lively and the patients are finally able to be themselves. Although the patients eventually go back to their state that they were in before, they were able to be themselves for a short period before they died. The experiences you see the patients have causes an awakening in the audience

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