![]() Our cranial walls are impressing on the brain and it’s affecting critical thinking. At one point, a lab technician (Finn Jones) tries to explain to a mob-like congregation, “Right now, your brains are slowly swelling. It would help audiences considerably to know what happens when humans can’t sleep - or at least, what “Awake” thinks will happen - in order to appreciate the urgency of humanity’s predicament. That’s because the screenwriters haven’t sufficiently worked out their operating premise here. There’s Netflix’s own hit “Bird Box,” of course, as well as several tense extended single-shot sequences - one trapped inside a car with Jill and her family, another observing her creep around a garage - clearly inspired by “Children of Men.” But DP Alan Poon (who also shot Raso’s “Copenhagen” and “Kodachrome”) is no Emmanuel Lubezki, and this world never feels as threatening. “Awake” isn’t nearly as dull as that clunker, but it’s painfully obvious that Raso (who co-wrote with brother Joseph from a story by Gregory Poirier) is cribbing from other, better post-apocalyptic movies at practically every turn, as a protective mama shepherds her kids - beatific daughter Matilda (Ariana Greenblatt) and testy teen Noah (Lucius Hoyos) - through a civilization that devolved to anarchy awfully quickly. ![]() Not since Terry Gilliam’s tedious “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” has a movie had such a narcoleptic impact on me (that’s a film I simply can’t get through with my eyes open). ![]() ![]() Or maybe I was too tired to be reviewing something from my couch. 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. Between its low-energy suspense and all-around failure to grip, “ Awake” took me three separate sittings to get through. 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’ll ever be able to sleep again, I had no such problem. If the recent real-world pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that early in a health crisis, nobody knows anything, and the resulting confusion tends to be more exhausting than entertaining. From the mysterious incident onward, the characters slowly slide toward insanity as fatigue takes its toll, although it’s not clear how everyone on Earth immediately recognizes (or believes) that the resulting restlessness is permanent. Seolhyun says: "She would point out things that I could improve on and guide me when it came to my acting".In director Mark Raso’s 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. "He really treats me well, like how an elder brother would his younger sibling," says Yoon.Īs a more experienced actor, Lee also guided the younger ones on set. This is his second consecutive production with Yoon, who played Namgoong's younger brother in series Hot Stove League (2019 to 2020). Namgoong has been praised by his co-stars as a dependable leader on set who took great care of the cast and crew. "I really enjoy communicating with others and having conversations with them, and I also think I do pretty well in social settings," he says. While Yoon Sun-woo plays an aloof computer hacker in the show, the 35-year-old sees himself as a social butterfly in real life. ![]() They are great co-actors whom I definitely want to work with again in the future," says Lee. "Even when it came to filming scenes that were challenging, we always enjoyed ourselves. Lee also praises Seolhyun for her eagerness to learn and Seolhyun says Lee made everyone comfortable on set. Both Lee and Seolhyun agree that Namgoong was a responsible leader on set. ![]()
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