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Dr. Malcom Sayer's Awakening

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Awakening is based on a true story of a neurologist named Oliver Sacks; he was portrayed by Dr. Malcom Sayer that was played by Robin Williams. He is a neurologist who moved to a new institution in 1969 and was able to make a miracle to some patients who were catatonic. A boy named Leonard showed at the first, it was confusing since nobody knew what was happening to him. His hand kept on twitching and being stiff, he couldn’t write properly because of that. Then the scene changed and it was 1969. There came Dr. Malcom Sayer a neurologist who was assigned in Bronx Psychiatric Hospital. He was surprised because why he will be handling real people; Dr. Sayer wasn’t used to that. Days passed and he observed that in that hospital there were plenty …show more content…

They said that she was found wandering around or something and then Dr. Sayer observed her carefully and he discovered that if you threw a ball or if a something falls in front of her, she has this reflexes that no one knew that she could make. Dr. Sayer told this to some of the doctors that were working there and they just laughed. Dr. Sayer then observed some of the catatonic patients and realized that they can do all the things that Lucy was tested to do. Dr. Sayer then met a patient who he was told by the patient’s mother that he has been hospitalized for 30 years. The patient’s name is Leonard and Dr, Sayer asked Mrs. Lowe about what happened to Leonard. She told him that Leonard likes to read and that he became like that at a very young age. Fast forward to when Dr. Sayer asked Mrs. Lowe to sign a form asking if she was alright to let him experiment on Leonard with a new drug. She agreed because she wanted what is best for her son. Dr. Sayer then made it happened and he added and added more dosage of grams to be given to Leonard. When the dosage of the new drug was to the highest point; Leonard has …show more content…

But the one actor who stood out was Robert De Niro as Leonard Lowe. The person that he did as Leonard Lowe wasn’t a very easy job because he has to act as if he actually is sick. Leonard is always getting hurt; his voice isn’t normal, and the way his actions were in the movie. I’m positive that Robert De Niro had a hard time portraying his character. The way he acted it so well fascinates me and made me realize that he is a great actor. In the movie, there are some parts that I didn’t like. It is where all the patients that were awakened became asleep again. That part made me sad and also made me realize that all good things must come to an end even if no one wants that. There were also parts that I liked for example; when the nurse cursed and said that it’s a miracle, also that time where Leonard has awoken. Those events made me realize that miracles do happened in one’s life when we least expected it to be. Since the movie has a genre of the movie is drama, the rate of this should be PG-13. It has a more mature meaning to people and it knocks out some sense to you that even though life can be hard; we should all know how to be patient and to be

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