Awakenings

Laurianne 2022-03-24 09:01:37

The film is based on the memoir of the same name by New York City-based British neurologist Oliver Sacks. In 1969, the shy and introverted but enthusiastic brain doctor Malcolm Searle (Robin Williams) came to a hospital in the Bronx, New York City, to treat patients with catalepsy syndrome. Get treatment. With the help and encouragement of nurse Eleanor (Julie Kavner), Dr. Searle boldly administered drugs to a group of patients who had fainted for decades, especially Leonard Lowe. (Robert De Niro) The effect is particularly pronounced. But what is surprising is that the patients showed a tendency to deteriorate soon after they woke up...
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Actor (Robert De Niro) and Best Adapted Screenplay , and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Movie (Robin Williams).

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Extended Reading
  • Ivy 2022-03-27 09:01:05

    To say a literary accent is to be able to wake up and feel how beautiful life is

  • Salvador 2022-04-23 07:01:43

    De Niro was quite young at the time, and the film was a real test of his acting skills; Uncle Robin seems to be quite used to the role of "a ray of sunshine in the dark"

Awakenings quotes

  • Dr. Sayer: You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.

  • Dr. Sayer: You told him I was a kind man. How kind is it to give life, only to take it away?

    Eleanor: It's given to and taken away from all of us.

    Dr. Sayer: Why does that not comfort me?

    Eleanor: Because you are a kind man. Because he's your friend.