{"id":271748,"date":"2021-06-11T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T03:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-awake-review-netflix-pandemic-thriller-has-narcoleptic-effect\/"},"modified":"2021-06-11T06:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T03:00:38","slug":"watch-awake-review-netflix-pandemic-thriller-has-narcoleptic-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-awake-review-netflix-pandemic-thriller-has-narcoleptic-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Awake&#8217; Review: Netflix Pandemic Thriller Has Narcoleptic Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40b63771547\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40b63771547\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-awake-review-netflix-pandemic-thriller-has-narcoleptic-effect\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Awake_Review_Netflix_Pandemic_Thriller_Has_Narcoleptic_Effect%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Awake&#8217; Review: Netflix Pandemic Thriller Has Narcoleptic Effect&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-awake-review-netflix-pandemic-thriller-has-narcoleptic-effect\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Awake_Review_Netflix_Pandemic_Thriller_Has_Narcoleptic_Effect%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Awake&#8217; Review: Netflix Pandemic Thriller Has Narcoleptic Effect&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-awake-review-netflix-pandemic-thriller-has-narcoleptic-effect\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-awake-review-netflix-pandemic-thriller-has-narcoleptic-effect\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Awake_Review_Netflix_Pandemic_Thriller_Has_Narcoleptic_Effect%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Awake&#8217; Review: Netflix Pandemic Thriller Has Narcoleptic Effect&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Awake_Review_Netflix_Pandemic_Thriller_Has_Narcoleptic_Effect%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Awake&#8217; Review: Netflix Pandemic Thriller Has Narcoleptic Effect&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        In director Mark Raso\u2019s occasionally engaging but mostly frustrating sci-fi thriller, an unexplained event causes a massive electromagnetic pulse that fries most electronics and leaves nearly all of humanity incapable of sleep. From the mysterious incident onward, the characters slowly slide toward insanity as fatigue takes its toll, although it\u2019s not clear how everyone on earth im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely recognizes (or believes) that the resulting restlessness is permanent. If the recent real-world pandemic has taught us anything, it\u2019s that early in a health crisis, nobody knows anything, and the resulting confusion tends to be more exhausting than engaging.<\/p>\n<p>So, at the risk of sounding facetious, I confess that while exasperated ex-military, ex-junkie super-mom Jill (Gina Rodriguez) worries about whether she\u2019ll ever be able to sleep again, I had no such problem. Between its low-energy suspense and all-around failure to grip, \u201cAwake\u201d took me three separate sittings to get through. I just couldn\u2019t help nodding off. Maybe it was all that talk of a world where people can no longer recharge their brains that made me want to cash in on 40 winks of my own. Or maybe I was too tired to be reviewing something from my couch.<\/p>\n<p>Not since Terry Gilliam\u2019s tedious \u201cThe Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus\u201d has a movie had such a narcoleptic impact on me (that\u2019s a film I simply can\u2019t get through with my eyes open). \u201cAwake\u201d isn\u2019t nearly as dull as that clunker, but it\u2019s painfully obvious that Raso (who co-wrote with brother Joseph from a story by Gregory Poirier) is cribbing from other, better post-apocalyptic <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> at practically every turn, as a protective mama shepherds her kids \u2014 beatific daughter Matilda (Ariana Greenblatt) and testy teen Noah (Lucius Hoyos) \u2014 through a civilization that devolved to anarchy awfully quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Raso\u2019s references are obvious. There\u2019s Netflix\u2019s own hit \u201cBird Box,\u201d of course, as well as several tense extended single-shot sequences \u2014 one tr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed inside a car with Jill and her family, another observing her creep around a garage \u2014 clearly inspired by \u201cChildren of Men.\u201d But DP Alan Poon (who also shot Raso\u2019s \u201cCopenhagen\u201d and \u201cKodachrome\u201d) is no Emmanuel Lubezki, and this world never feels as threatening. That\u2019s because the screenwriters haven\u2019t sufficiently worked out their operating premise here.<\/p>\n<p>It would help audiences considerably to know what happens when humans can\u2019t sleep \u2014 or at least, what \u201cAwake\u201d thinks will happen \u2014 in order to appreciate the urgency of humanity\u2019s predicament. At one point, a cute lab technician (Finn Jones) tries to explain to a mob-like congregation, \u201cRight now, your brains are slowly swelling. Our cranial walls are impressing on the brain and it\u2019s affecting critical thinking. It\u2019s what happens when we don\u2019t sleep.\u201d Or in slightly catchier words: \u201cIf you don\u2019t sleep, you mind will bend and bend until it breaks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OK, but can people really die from lack of shut-eye? How long does that take, and wouldn\u2019t it be hitting everyone on more or less the same schedule? (Maybe that explains the sudden explosion of violence that occurs at the film\u2019s climax, although the melee seems to erupt out of nowhere, and doesn\u2019t feel particularly intuitive when it occurs.) \u201cAwake\u201d actually becomes a lot more fun to watch as it goes on, since Rodriguez\u2019s already intense performance grows ever more unhinged (and hilariously haggard looking) as the movie attempts to mirror its characters\u2019 increasingly delirious state of mind.<\/p>\n<p>While Jill\u2019s survival instincts devolve into not-quite-lucid decision-making, her young daughter Matilda (Ariana Greenblatt) seems has no trouble napping. Neither does an elderly stranger already in military custody, and trying to make sense of these anomalies becomes the operating motor behind Jill\u2019s actions, first to run away from the seemingly unethical researchers (represented by an unusually frowny Jennifer Jason Leigh) and later to join forces with escaped convict Dodge (Shamier Anderson), whose point of view probably would have made a better movie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAwake\u201d is bonkers in a fun way from time to time \u2014 as when Jill drives through a crowd of naked strangers, seemingly mesmerized by the sun \u2014 but gives the distinct impression that the most interesting crises are happening off screen. Apart from the clich\u00e9 car crash that coincides with the initial EMP and a cool shot of satellites tumbling through the night sky, too much of the threat is implied through suggestion. And for audiences bored by what amounts to a slow-burn road <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>, it\u2019s all too easy to close your eyes and look for something more exciting in your dreams.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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