Awakenings Movie Review
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Awakenings Movie Reviewed by Teresita Blanco
The stars of this movie are Robin Williams and Robert De
Niro. Again, Robin Williams plays a doctor. Since he had a beard, you could
tell he was going to play a depressing, sensitive character. He plays a
researcher named Oliver Sacks. The movie is based on the memoirs of this
doctor.
The movie starts pretty depressing. A boy is trying to write
his name on a chair, with a knife. Suddenly, his hand starts trembling. In
another scene, he is at school trying to write an essay. At a certain point, he
loses his ability to write all together. His friends try to visit him at home,
but the poor child is only worsening.
The film then switches to Dr. Sacks applying for work. He
used to research plants for medicine. The hospital allowed him to enter, even
though he had never treated humans. They figured he would be good at the job
since he would be treating humans who were vegetables.
He meets there the kind from the beginning. The poor child,
played by Robert de Niro, had been a vegetable for more than 30 years. Dr.
Sacks then tries to develop a treatment for the encephalitis lethargic the guy
suffers. The movie is both heartwarming, even if the theme ending depresses the
hell out of me.
