Summary Of The Movie 'Altered States'

I. Introduction Awakenings was directed by Penny Marshall and It was written by Oliver Sacks and Steven Zaillan. The main Character was Robin Williams as Dr.Malcolm Sayer. In the movie awakenings, Dr.Malcolm Sayer discover a positive effects of the drug L-dopa to the catatonic patients who survived the disease called Encephalitis lethargica, According to (NORD 07) ‘Encephalitis lethargica is a disease characterized by high fever, headache, double vision, delayed physical and mental response, and lethargy. In acute cases, patients may enter coma. Patients may also experience abnormal eye movements, upper body weakness, muscular pains, tremors, neck rigidity, and behavioral changes including psychosis.

The movie Awakenings is a true story about a neurologist played by Robin Williams, at a hospital in the Bronx, who discovers a drug L-Dopa in which helps temporarily with unresponsive patients. Leonard Lowe who is played by Robert Deniro and the other patients are given this new age drug and are forced to adapt to the world around them that has been changing ever since they began to be catatonic.

Eddie steals a purse from an elderly lady. Manny was given a second chance by the black man. “In that instant of trying to call out to Eddie everything changed. It was like I’d seen my own fate.” (210) Manny said this because he realized that he is on the completely wrong path in life. Manny realizes that Eddie is starting to pick up character traits like his father and Manny cannot turn out to be like his own dad. Manny knows that he does not want to throw away his life so he turns it around because he knows what the outcome will be if he does not change.

Eddie’s perception of life and the role of animals changed after he watched a kitten for a brief period, and when he was mugged near to death. The kitten that he watched for a friend challenged his perception of the animal, and eventually led to him adopting many cats of his own because of the small little kitten. While being mugged, Eddie screamed for help from passerby, who ultimately ignored him. He related that incident to how animals

The film relates to Emile Durkheim’s evolutionary theory in the ways that Erin and the rest of the society in the film evolved throughout the movie just as in Durkheim’s theory. My analysis will focus mainly on Erin, because

Turning against the world of drugs and violence, Eddie vows to take the straight and narrow path, even if it means struggling at temporary manual labor jobs. So when he takes a landscaping job for a white man across town thinking that god had finally heard him, the man's truck is stolen from the front of Eddie's apartment causing yet another problem to add on. He hid for hours and days drinking because he really liked his job with the white man and was afraid of what might happen to him. Although getting the truck stolen from him kinda seems like a big deal, it is not because that sort of thing happens daily in the streets of fresno that he lived by, it was almost like that was something normal to him. So when his aunt gets home she reminds him yet another time that his cousin died only this time a gun came with the tortillas she would try and persuade him with the avenge the death of her son.

This theme of evolution is evident in the analysis of the protagonist, Guy Montag, in Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451. Guy Montag is a fireman living in a futuristic society. His job is unlike the firemen in our community because of the fact that his role is to burn books and protect the people in the community from the knowledge and information that the books hold. This character undergoes major change throughout the course of the novel because of the interactions that he has with the major characters in the

After Eddie found out all of the interesting things that he never knew about his father, he is now more accepting himself as a person and where he came from, as well as accepting where his father came

     The next person that Eddie meets is his Sargent from the war. He tells Eddie about how he, the Sargent, died, and how that enabled the rest of the company to survive. He told Eddie that it had been him who had shot him, in order to save his life. Eddie had become convinced that he saw someone in a burning building, and to prevent Eddie from going in there and losing his life, the Sargent shot him in the leg.

Eddie Morra is a scrappy was a regular man who has a book contract and dreams to become a well-recognized writer but is having a serious care of writer's block. It is so severe that he has not even written a single word of his book yet. Although he is not an alcoholic he frequently drinks and shirks his responsibilities. Sensing that he is going nowhere in life, his girlfriend Lindy decides to leave him. She says in short, that he uses her for expenses, and as the cleaning lady. She feels that he has no longer become the man she fell in love with. The wife of his landlord accurately states Eddies current state as a self-defeating, energy sucking, dirt bag, sponging off the lives of others. He runs into his Ex brother in law (Vern) who offers him a drug that will allow the user to access the 100 percent of his brain instead the regular 20 percent. Vern gets

As Eddie tunnels deeper into substance abuse, he begins to turn emotionally listless (or should I say flaccid). The music fades in the mix, and sounds of snorting and moaning are brought up, taking the audience into

The movie Split is an American thriller that is centered around the fictional character known as Kevin Crumb. Kevin suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder which leads to him being known as many other names. Kevin is also commonly known as Hedwig, a young boy, Dennis, a perverted man who suffers from OCD, and Patricia, an older classy woman. These are only some of the personalities Kevin has taken on. These personalities began to develop young in Kevin’s life as a defense mechanism to help protect him from his abusive mother. Kevin has many other personalities, some of which are evil. These evil personalities are what give the movie its thriller genre. Kevin kidnaps a girl, and she experiences all of these different personalities until a new one emerges that dominates over the others. “The beast” as it is referred to is the one that causes all the scare factors in the movie. When Kevin sees the damage that his other personalities have done, he is horrified and scared because he does not know how to control himself.

Throughout the novel, Eddie also can be exemplified as a sympathetic character. sympathetic characters are when readers feel sympathy for throughout a story. The reader can feel empathy for Eddie, when the author describes the pain of Eddie’s gunshot wound. The pain was described to be unbearable and the description of the event of the gunshot pains a morbid picture in the reader’s mind. During Eddie’s time as a soldier in World War II, any reader can feel an astonishing amount of sympathy for Eddie. During, Eddie’s time as a soldier, he experienced, “A piercing pain ripped through Eddie's leg. He screamed a long, hard curse then crumbled to the ground. Blood was spewing below his knee. Plane engines roared. The skies lit in bluish flashes. He lay there, bleeding and burning, his eyes shut against the searing heat, and for the first time in his life, he felt ready to die,” (Albom 84). The reader can comprehend Eddies suffering and pain. Eddie was on the ground, in a war zone hurt and slowly dying. Readers can feel a lot of sympathy for when Eddie wanted to let go of the world and die. Before Eddie’s death, he ran under a falling amusement park ride to save a little girl, Eddie

Garreau, Joel. Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies- and What It Means to Be Human. New York: Random House, 2005. Print.

With Eddie being limitless on this drug he gains power over things and makes more money than he ever thought would be possible, which eventually conditions him into becoming even more dependent upon the drug.