Psychological Effects In The Movie Awakenings

The movie “Awakenings” is a 1990 drama film that is based on Oliver Sacks , M.D. 1973 memoir with the same title and is directed by Penny Marshal . “Awakenings” is a movie that will surely make you cry because of the miracles that have happened in a hospital for people with disabilities . The doctor that helped the people with Parkinson’s Disease never lose hope and believed that they will get better , he at first didn’t saw the possibilities for them to be cured until that time he first encountered an aged woman with that disease . After that encounter he is now hopeful that they will be cured and he continued to conduct research about them . Until that time he discovered a drug known as L-DOPA which had an astonishing , “awakening” effect

Malcolm Sayer the doctor who never loses hope to his patient to be cured , Robert De Niro who played as a patient who is Leonard Lowe , Julie Kavner who played as Eleanor Costello who is the assistant and nurse of Dr. Malcolm Sayer who believes him even if the other doctors and nurses do not , Ruth Nelson who played as Mrs. Lowe the mother of Leonard Lowe who is a caring and loving mother to a son with a Parkinson’s Disease even if she knows that his son is like that she stayed strong , Alice Drummond who played as Lucy the first patient that Dr. Malcolm Sayer interacted with , and lastly John Herd who is Dr. Kaufman in the movie who at first does not believed that the patients with Parkinson’s Disease will be experiencing miracles . The movie “Awakenings” is about a doctor applying for a job and with out knowing it he is assigned to a hospital for people with disabilities but when he had an encounter with the old woman with a Parkinson’s Disease he became hopeful that they will be cured and is to return with their own lives , even though he knows that it will be hard finding a cure for them he never gave up , he conducted a research about them until that last time he tried a drug to one of his patient and it surely works

Sayer which is Eleanor Costello who is played by Julie Kavner , she also did a great job at being caring , honest and helpful person and she also became a special person to Dr. Sayer’s life , she really acted realistically she made it look herself as a real nurse in real life because it is very natural to her . For us there is no actors and actresses that did not do a great job in there individual role because as we can see they really put their heart to what they are doing which is acting as best as they could so the whole movie will be one of the best , they acted as if it is real that they are people with Parkinson’s Disease , The doctors The nurses , and even as their relatives . What we like about the movie is first it makes us motivated in pursuing our chosen course because of the reason that we can help a lot of people even the people we don’t even know in the near future , it tells us to be humble and stay humble even if you achieved in being a doctor we must all remember where we came from , it is in the scene where Dr. Sayer is being introduced in the movie for the first time he remained humble