Leonard was originally a clever and happy teenager, but his body appeared to be ill, and his condition was getting worse, and finally he became a demented person. Decades have passed and the United States has entered the turbulent 1960s. Sachs, a biological research scholar, was hired by a mental hospital as a clinical therapist. Sachs, who could not adapt to his new job, accidentally discovered the characteristics of patients with dementia, which aroused His research spirit. After research, he found that a drug for Parkinson's disease (muscle tremor) can cure dementia patients. As a result, Leonard and other dementia patients returned to normal after using the drug, but after a miracle, they were sad. After Leonard awakened from decades of sleep, he found that he was facing the problem of retrieving himself, which caused him to conflict with the establishment of the hospital that restricted his freedom and dignity as a human being. Sachs also felt that compared with the care and respect of human nature, the effect of drugs was far from enough to make Leonard and other dementia patients completely healed. But it's too late: all dementia patients are back to their previous tape state.
Awakenings movie plot
2021-11-14 08:01
Extended Reading
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Keanu 2022-03-28 09:01:02
His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world. /// Rilke
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Antonetta 2022-04-24 07:01:05
His staring eyes from inside the cage have long been exhausted and empty... For him, there are countless iron fences in front of him... And behind the countless iron fences, there is still no, no world... He walked towards him Powerful steps, pacing along the narrow circle, as if completing some kind of religious ceremony... And in the middle of that circle, his once firm will has become stiff and paralyzed... Sometimes, his eyes raised silently,
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Anthony: [cheerfully] How's it going?
Frank: How's it going?
Anthony: Yeah, how do you feel?
Frank: Well, my parents are dead. My wife is in an institution. My son has disappeared out west somewhere.
[pause]
Frank: I feel old and I feel swindled, that's how I feel.
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Dr. Sayer: [in job interview] It was an immense project. I was to extract 1 decagram of myelin from 4 tons of earth worms.
Dr. Sullivan: Really!
Dr. Sayer: Yes. I was on the project for 5 years. I was the only one who believed in it. Everyone else said it couldn't be done.
Dr. Kaufman: It can't.
Dr. Sayer: I know that now. I proved it.