Awake - Movie Review (2021)

 Awake - Movie Review (2021)

I struggled with severe insomnia for the past year, frequently going without sleep for days on end before 12-hour stretches of delicious relief from being awake were able to wake me. Anyone who has had insomnia, or even more minor cases of sleeplessness, is undoubtedly familiar with the feeling of growing desirability for oblivion, which sadly only reduces our chances of falling asleep as our anxiety about being unable to go asleep grows. I essentially become a zombie after a few nights of minimal sleep or even just one night of none. The melodramatically expansive picture Awake by writer-director Mark Raso aims to recreate this sensation. All of the electronics on Earth suddenly stop working, and no matter how worn out people are, they are unable to fall asleep. Pandemonium, societal breakdown, and the prospect of humanity's extinction result from this as people gradually turn into zombies as a result of lack of sleep.

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Through the eyes of heroin dealer, widow, veteran, and struggling mother Jill (Gina Rodriguez), who only wants to protect her children—including young Matilda (Ariana Greenblatt), who is one of the few who can still fall asleep—we see this two-problems-at-once exceptional. This makes her a desirable target for almost everyone, with some wanting to sacrifice her and others seeking to pry open her skull to discover what makes her unique. While their mental skills are rapidly deteriorating, Jill and her reclusive son Noah (Lucius Hoyos) are determined on preventing that, making friends and enemies while taking Matilda to a research lab that might provide a cure.

Awake's overall tone is extremely serious, often to its detriment, despite a few chuckles and funny incidents. It's a ridiculous concept by definition, and no matter how terrible the events are, it's impossible not to find something amusing in a world where people are staggering around while intoxicated. In one brief scene, the family passes a group of naked people staring aimlessly into the sun without saying a word. It doesn't feel eerie, it just feels strange.

 Even yet, it passes quickly. The only use of visual language is wobbly cameras and a little blur, which is terribly unimaginative for a movie where everyone save for Matilda starts to experience hallucinations toward the conclusion. Additionally, the writing doesn't appear to adapt to the subjects' progressively sleepier states; people continue to speak in entire phrases despite the fact that they should be absolutely incomprehensible.

Nevertheless, the majority of the actors does a fantastic job portraying their sleeplessness, leaving me to question whether some of them genuinely stopped sleeping prior to filming. Particularly Rodriguez is a strong protagonist, and it's hard to watch as her eyes grow more buried and her face becomes expressionless despite her yelling and fighting. A captivating "guest" character, played by Shamier Anderson's escaped prisoner (each new location seems a little like a new episode), immediately won my trust despite everyone else being willing to stab others in the back.

Awake doesn't have any particularly offensive or repulsive elements, but like many other recent horror/thrillers (A Quiet Place, Bird Box, etc.), it seems to be just one big thought experiment: making people unable to do one everyday activity and then extrapolating what the logical actions that result from that event would mean, based somewhat on science but without being overly concerned with the specifics. Awake probably feels as foolish as it does because we don't typically think of sleep as a resource, making its "sleepers," the rare people who can sleep, a highly prized and wanted resource. I don't know if a whole movie needed to be made to remind us of that point, but it makes sense—both scientifically and emotionally—that we would break down very fast without it.

Since you asked, I sleep well right now and, in fact, I probably sleep a lot more now that I understand what it's like to not be in charge of my sleep cycle. I pray I never have to go through anything like it again because it was more than simply sleeplessness; that period of time in my life was one of the worst. However, given that the main focus of Awake isn't that kind of actual experience, there wasn't much in the film that was engrossing or disturbing. It's about gun battles, chases, and sporadically, family. To make it feel like a full adventure, there are a few tense moments, good acting, and a good range of places. However, by positing some ridiculous science-fiction explanation for why nobody sleeps, it fails to make a meaningful or sympathetic point about true sleeplessness.

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