Awakenings
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Submitted by agrawal05 on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Awakenings
Awakenings focus on the mysterious sleeping disease that caused its victims to remain in a trance for as long as fifty years. Dr. Sayer believes that this disease can be treated with an experimental drug. So he decided to give it to one of the patients, Leonard Lowe. After taking the drug, Leonard wakes up and becomes a normal human being, as if nothing had happened. When Dr. Sayer sees the results, he decides to give the drug to all the patients. Unfortunately, the drug started having some negative side effects that produced mood changes. After some time, Leonard turned into a furious man, who revolted against everything. Due to this he is put in with the mental patients of the hospital when he is denied access to the outside world. Soon Leonard returns back to the way he was before he took the drug and so does the other patients.
Dr. Sayer starts out looking at Lucy, who gives no response but has a reflex. When he looks at the charts of all the patients he sees that all of them said: schizophrenia, hysteria or impairment. Then he starts looking at Leonard, who could not speak, and was in the same room for nine years. Since some of his symptoms were like the Parkinson’s patient; the Dr. decides to give L-Dopa. First, he tries the dose of 200 mg with juice, but got no response. Then he tried 500 mg with milk, but still did not get any response. At last, he increased the dose to 1000 mg. When Leonard got this dose, he was able to walk, move his head, speak, show emotions, and write. Seeing the positive results of the medication, Dr. Sayer gets permission to treat all the patients in a similar way. But, after awhile the medicine started showing negative results. Decreasing the dose made Leonard slip back into the catatonic state, but increasing his dosage increased the adverse effects. Same thing happened to the other patients; all went back to the way they were before. In this movie, moral and ethical issues were violated. For...
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