23, on virtual-cinema platform Kino Marquee and Film Forum virtual cinema. Oliver Sacks: His Own Life has been screened at international film festivals. And how one doctor's own humanity left such a powerful mark on science. The documentary is a powerful reminder that scientists can be hobbled by the same limiting views that control many humans. It took decades for the medical establishment to accept and embrace Sacks, partly because he spent more time observing people than conducting experiments with stringent hypotheses. The film doesn't avoid this part of his story. While it certainly makes some big changes, including the key characters involved, the important aspects and powerful elements of what really happened are captured. Oliver Sacks, author of the Awakenings book. The movie Awakenings tells the incredible story of these patients briefly bursting back to life to walk, talk and remember.ĭespite Sacks' groundbreaking work, he had his critics, with some charging he exploited his patients for a literary career. Directed by Penny Marshall, Awakenings is a retelling of the groundbreaking work carried out by Dr. Profoundly affecting footage shows Sacks with patients at the Bronx hospital where his research using the new drug levodopa had the initially astonishing result of waking people from post-sleeping-sickness catatonic states that had lasted decades. The 114-minute film intersperses interviews and archival photos - of Sacks with his family, riding his motorcycle, buffed up from weight lifting, interacting with patients.
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