2021 · drama · sci-fi · thriller
Awake
Directed by Mark Raso1h 36m2021
After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only Jill, an ex-soldier with a troubled past, may hold the key to a cure in the form of her own daughter. The question is, can Jill safely deliver her daughter and save the world before she herself loses her mind.
Our read: Awake (2021) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, extreme drama / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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