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| Review: Awake Movie 2021 |
Review: Awake Movie 2021. The older we get, the more people will complain that twenty-four hours a day is not enough. Because of what? Because twenty-four hours a day really isn't enough when we have so much work to do.
When you're an adult, getting six hours of sleep is like winning the lottery. What is a siesta? it's just a privilege that a small child has. Humans are too busy and have many necessities of life that they pawn hours of sleep.
After all, humans need rest, right? The recommendation is about 7 to 8 hours a day. Do you know what happens when humans are sleep deprived? Netflix's latest movie, Mark Raso's Awake, provides a chilling picture of how much sleep is needed.
Because without sleep, humans will be exhausted and can die. But there is something worse, not sleeping causes the brain to become chaotic, disorientation, illusions and loss of critical thinking skills. Humans will turn into barbarians and can kill each other very madly.
Review: Awake Movie 2021, Synopsis
The story of Awake develops from the interesting premise of what if humans can no longer sleep. When they are sleepy, tired, but can not enter the sleep state.
They lose the ability to sleep. That's because, supposedly, the world was hit by solar flares or something that caused all electronics to turn off, including human internal clocks. So that humans, including the main character of the story – Jill, live restlessly in the dark.
The atmosphere quickly became chaotic once humans who were getting tired and lost their rationality found out that there was actually one person who was still able to sleep.
Remember when I said siesta was a child's privilege? And that was Matilda, Jill's daughter; the only person who's somehow still normal, but that's also what puts Jill and her family in danger of having Matilda over and over.
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| Review: Awake Movie 2021 |
The religious group wanted to sacrifice her as the Chosen One, while the military group wanted to make her an experiment in an attempt to find a cure for the pandemic, but Jill chose to flee in search of safety for her daughter and other sons.
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It is when photographing the reactions of human groups that the movie reaches its highest point, containing many subtleties about social mental states in various variables.
Some of the people in the movie are trying to think straight, some of the ones we saw finally gave up because they desperately needed something to make them feel safe, and there were even people who seemed to take advantage of all the chaos.
We understand this movie contains a weighty portrait when we realize that the story is just fantasy but we believe that people in the real world will more or less act according to what is depicted in the story.
I mean, I don't think we need to think that far. Just see for yourself how our social mentality is shaped by the media (during the pandemic or not). Awake seems eager to keep us awake from how close we really are to destroying this generation in just a few hours (even hours?).
The problem of not being able to sleep is just a clever layer (to throw the social circle into chaos) that shrouds the real idea the film is trying to convey.
That is about nurturing a new generation, we will be able to understand more about this by looking at Jill, the protagonist of the story who is a single mother with two children.
Mark Raso actually makes Jill a solid character. She has a background as an ex-soldier – like most army characters, Jill also has PTSD, and this is what led Jill to become addicted to the drugs that brought her husband.
Now Jill is working as a security guard at the hospital, supporting the two children she entrusted to her mother, because due to her medical condition Jill is deemed unfit to raise a child.
The backstory that is spread throughout this duration forms Jill as a story about a mother who now has to take care of her own children, no longer letting them be cared for by someone else.
With such good intentions, it's a shame this movie fell into the hands of poor execution. Awake will indeed make us fall asleep faster, because surviving Jill's adventures is a very tedious task.
Raso seems trapped and confused by the demands that make the experience of watching this movie equally disorienting and chaotic. Raso makes this movie feel very choppy, feels disjointed.
In editing, this is most prominent where when the solar flare phenomenon occurred in the early days, it was actually quite exciting because it happened so suddenly. The car Jill was driving, along with her two children, suddenly the car died and they fell into the lake.
After that, everything in this movie starts to feel disjointed. The child who a few seconds ago swam near Jill, already on the ground, was rescued by the police.
The townspeople who seemed to be still hit by the usual power cuts, the next day they immediately started a sect. The movie needs more room to develop the story and Raso doesn't.
He skimmed the scenes in the script without really paying attention to what was supposed to be recording the events. Even small things like Jill and the kids stopped in the woods because Matilda was tired, and was taken by Jill. Exactly in the next scene? The three of them ran and there was no sign of exhaustion from Matilda.
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The editing treatment that doesn't make the scene continuous like this in the end makes the scene ambiguous when Jill's consciousness declines.
And this doesn't make the scene any more real, but it's kind of awkward. For example, the scene in the library. It feels very disjointed. Matilda, who was still sleeping in the car, was in the library.
Jill then teaches her how to shoot a book, using a real gun. Matilda ran outside. Noah appeared from near the book Jill had shot. And the next shot, Matilda was sleeping again in the car.
It seems that the movie where Matilda is in the library is Jill's hallucination, that she almost shot Noah because she was tired and desperate. But because of the editing and direction, the scene becomes confusing.
And of course also makes the acting of the players so strange. They all look stiff. Gina Rodriguez goes to great lengths to hit every note on Jill's character which has a pretty wide range.
Overall, She's fine. Her transformation from a fighter mother to a completely exhausted person seems reassuring. But because of the editing and directing, every new scene that involves her communicating with her children, Gina seems stiff. So are her children. I don't think they have the chemistry as a real family. I'm not happy to see them. I feel nothing for them.
The most enjoyable character to watch is the minor character, a prisoner who escapes and joins Jill's family. But even that character doesn't get justice because it's also lost' due to bad editing.
In the action scenes in the third act, the cut and cut scenes are continued irrationally and without proper eye direction. So we really can't enjoy it. It really makes the movie feel stilted and, worst of all, look fake.
The story of this movie also ends with not too satisfying. You know, because the issue of solar flares and not being able to sleep is just a sweetener, movies don't really solve the problem. We were not given an answer as to why this phenomenon occurred. Why only Matilda (and another woman) can sleep.
As a solution, this movie tries to tie it back with the idea of a new generation. And what makes this movie has an ending that you have to watch for yourself because for me this movie is really crazy. I can't believe the movie actually made the children's characters do that to their mothers.
If the intent of this movie is to convey that in the end it is the new generation that now has to reset the previous generation, then this movie really has a crazy sense of humor.
Closing
This is actually another film with potential, one that has an interesting premise and idea behind it, but ultimately fails to communicate it to us audiences. He's so complicated with himself with layers of story gimmick.
There are many things that need to be addressed by this movie. First, he had to really set the tone for the dark if he really wanted the story to end in the way they did.
Second, choppy editing should be fixed, because what they show here looks fake. It even makes the actors' acting look stiff; as a family they seemed uncomfortable.
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