Opinion | Noah Berlatsky: A story about mysterious worldwide global apocalypse feels different after the pandemic, and 'Awake' takes advantage of that. - NBCNewsTHINK
From left, Lucius Hoyos as Noah, Gina Rodriguez as Jill, and Ariana Greenblatt as Matilda in "Awake."The new Netflix film “Awake” is a story about a desperate mother trying to save her children in the middle of a mental-health apocalypse — in other words, an obvious effort to reproduce the break-out success of Netflix’s“Bird Box.
In “Bird Box,” mysterious invisible creatures caused everyone who saw them to go suicidally or homicidally insane. Humans did terrible things to one another as a result, but that wasn’t really their fault. And the main drama of the story was about the difficulty of operating blindfolded in a world where a glance the wrong way can kill you.
A story about mysterious worldwide global apocalypse feels different after the pandemic, and “Awake” takes advantage of that.
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