Reference no: EM132629119
Use the links below, or read other cand use it to answer the questions below.
1. What caused the brain damage to the "frozen" people in the film?
2. What are the symptoms of this disease?
3. Why do you think Lucy could keep walking when the pattern on the floor continued?
4. How was music important to the "frozen" people?
5. What does catatonic mean?
6. Using the Ouiji board, Leonard spelled out the name of the poem "The Panther" by Karl Rainer Rilke. What is this poem about and why is it important to Leonard?
7. What chemical substance did these post-encephalitis patients seem to stop producing?
8. Why did Dr. Sayer have to stop using the miracle drug on the "frozen" patients?
9. What is the second "awakening" Dr. Sayer refers to at the end of the movie? What do you think this suggests about the treatment of mental patients?
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/20/movies/review-film-from-a-living-death-to-life-in-awakenings.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awakenings