The Awakenings

Few days back, we had a chance to review on another movie - Awakening. (seems like we have alot movie to watch in our course huh?).

I think I began to appreciate alot of medical/disease/illness movies lately..... perhaps since year 2.... It may seem like 职业病... but I would see it as something to gain knowledge from (provided that whatever is shown is correct), something that can motivate and inspire us and maybe to also create an awakening for all of us - a recognition, realization, or coming into awareness of something that we might have forgotten, neglected or never thought of... ...

The story is about a new doctor finds himself with a ward full of comatose patients. He is disturbed by them and the fact that they have been comatose for decades with no hope of any cure. When he finds a possible chemical cure he gets permission to try it on one of them. When the first patient awakes, he is now an adult having gone into a coma in his early teens. The film then delights in the new awareness of the patients and then on the reactions of their relatives to the changes in the newly awakened.

(movie summary extracted from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099077/plotsummary)

What we do know is that, as the chemical window closed, another awakening took place; that the HUMAN SPIRIT is more powerful than any drug - and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter. This is what we'd forgotten - the simplest things.