Year: 2008 Director: Joby Harold
Distribuzione: Eagle Pictures
The film "Awake," by Joby Harold's directorial debut is a thriller inspired by metaphysics. Clayton is a nice offspring without a father awaiting a new heart. The boy's mother would entrust the task to the family doctor, but Clay insists that Dr. Jack Harper, her intimate friend and confidante, to head the operation.
Everything seems to go according to the scheme, but when the boy is under "the knife" realizes not be fully anesthetized. His body, in fact, continues to feel pain, but without being able to move or summon help. It 's the so-called "anesthesia awareness." To resist the pain of an open-heart surgery Clay takes refuge in his memories, but find there own painful things about his life ...
The assumption is one of those interesting, the execution is mediocre ones. Despite the cast as "good" Terrence Howard, the "crash" Jessica Alba, and the "jedi" Hayden Christensen, the film ends up failing its launch. Committing a foul in the area. Break off the match. Start slow, very slow, with thirty-minute prequel to "prepare the field for a story that in some way (considering the title) already expected. And when the moment of the film, which is the time of the incision in the absence of anesthesia, there is a feeling that this lasts too little. It goes beyond then, hopefully, coming to what should be cracking down of the plot, his turning point, but even there the plot twist is "poorly managed" by a director too hastily, without revealing just give him the breathing narrative.
in favor of what's the rush? Hard to say. The theme of "memory" as a way to go to discover forgotten sins, is no stranger to cinema, but in this case is aware of the actual mechanism by which a man under the knife and an open heart (!), Instead of passing out, continue to remain conscious and to think of the "endorsed".
short, a plot pretext also joins an unlikely dramatic realization, and the film drowns in a sea of \u200b\u200bmessy questions. The assumption, once again, was interesting, but the "shot" went short. Too hasty in concluding that the newcomer Joby Harold makes a film to be seen only in "DVD" on Saturday evening, with rain and no friends to call. Diego Altobelli (2008)
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