Despite not knowing the long term effects, Leonard, who was aware of his surroundings through his catatonic state, may have mixed emotions about his situation, wanting both to be treated as human being and an experiment guinea pig to ensure that what is happening benefits him and others in the long run. Malcolm has to try and convince Kaufman and the hospital administration to extend the therapy to the other patients. As the drug therapy 'awakens' Leonard, there are several issues that come into play. That patient is forty-one year old Leonard Lowe, who has been in his current state since he was eleven years old, and who has been supported by his loving mother through all these years. Kaufman, to administer an expensive experimental drug therapy on only one patient with family consent. As such, he is able to convince, albeit reluctantly, his skeptical boss, Dr. In doing some research, he also finds that some common bonds between these patients are that they suffered from encephalitis in the 1920s or 1930s, and that their physical states are like they have Parkinson's disease frozen in time. He notices that some of the patients, despite their generally catatonic state, respond in unusual ways to certain stimuli. Most of his patients are in a semi-catatonic state and are housed in what some of the orderlies coin the 'garden' ward, where all they can do for the patients is water and feed them. The job is not ideal on his side as he has difficulties relating to people which is the reason he has focused on research projects not involving human subjects, while the hospital hires him somewhat out of desperation in not finding anyone else with the qualifications who wants the job. Malcolm Sayer is hired as a clinical physician at a local hospital in the Bronx, despite he only having a research background. The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.ДЎ969.

The awakening movie