The Awakenings Movie

The film, Awakenings, is based on a true story from the book of neurologist Oliver Sacks’. In this film, Robert de Niro plays as Leonord Lowe, who is affected by sleepy sickness as a young man. He was unable to move or speak. He was visited by her mother every day to look after him as she has for many years. Robin Williams plays as Dr. Malcolm Sayer, which is the neurologist in the film, like Dr. Sacks who discovered the forgotten survivors of the sleepy sickness epidemic. He finds himself drawn to the group of chronically disabled people, especially to Leonard. This movie reminds us that the human spirit is more powerful than drug that needs to be nourished in work, play, friendship, family, which are things that matter, that we mostly forget, …show more content…
Awakenings appears to be an exception to this trend. Although the names of people involved are changed, and the approach of treatment for a disease is different, the movie seems to show a particular disease and the drug used to treat it very accurately. What we like about the movie is when Leonard awakens from his state and his mother sees him fully conscious for the first time since he was a child. That all of the patients experience what appears to be fully recovered, and for time they are able to lead the normal life that is often taken for granted. And the patience of Dr. Sayer and how hardworking he is. We don’t like is that not long before he begins to experience the side effects of L-Dopa. His body begins to build tolerance for it, so his Parkinsonian symptoms begin to return. And after a time, the rest of Dr. Sayer’s patrients went back as ‘asleep’. We’ve learned that everyone needs to be loved and feel loved no matter what they are going through. Even though the patients were unable to cope losing decades of their lives it’s not too late to do something new and not following their dreams make them dead inside, they got one life to live so love what they do. If they don’t do something now then they’ll never know. It tells people not to take life for granted, especially those littlest things that mostly matters, that we forgot. A miracle