A curious question, to understand the power of the subconscious better, could be the idea of complete conscious during surgery, under a high dosage of anesthesia. A body fully paralyzed, yet a mind fully functioning and aware, as if awake.
The film, “Awake” attempts to answer the possibilities to this question in a series of events with a plain plot that triggers simply a further confusion behind this puzzling idea. If a subconscious state that’s so strong can enter one’s consciousness and awareness during a state of complete paralysis, is one capable to feel?
Is it true that one in 700 people going under anesthesia during surgery, is actually awake!? Such state is called anesthetic awareness.
A british man named Joby Harlold, not recognized in the film industry, writes and directs this story of a very successful man in Manhattan NY, who has a weak heart and gets into a heart transplant surgery. However, he learns that such surgery sometimes is not meant to take place in a way that he ends up experiencing it.
Starring Jessica Alba(as Sam in the film), the object of desire, and probably the hope and entertainment in the film, who tries to seduce Hayden Christiansen (Clay) in order to get full access to his money, by conducting an experiment through a surgery that goes wrong.
Awake, keeps you entertained and questioning throughout the end, however, its resolution is easily predicted.
It is a good idea in theory, but poorly presented in this film.