But as for what caused the mass insomnia in the first place? By the end of the film, the sleeping woman passes away, leaving Jill to rescue Matilda.
Noah, heavily impacted by the insomnia, is found tampering with electronics and ultimately electrocutes himself and dies. Matilda attempts to use a defibrillator on Noah, however the charge shocks her instead and knocks her out.
When Matilda wakes up, she discovers Jill mourning over the loss of Noah, only for him to start breathing once more. Eventually, Dr. Murphy Jennifer Jason Leigh tells Jill that their best guess is that it was a solar flare that somehow disrupted humans' electromagnetic wiring and interfered with their glymphatic system, while also knocking out satellites and frying electronics.
The glymphatic system clears waste from the nervous system during sleep. With no one sleeping, that waste would instead build up, causing many of the disturbing symptoms that we see in "Awake. Indeed, by the end of the film, after a week without sleep, Jill definitely appears to be on death's doorstep, unable to speak or really even move anymore.
Earlier in the film, Brian Finn Jones warns Jill that prolonged lack of sleep will result in a loss of critical thinking, hallucinations, motor failure, and eventually will lead to organ failure, paralysis, and ultimately, death. For the rest of the film, Jill and the other characters race against the clock to find a cure, knowing that if they don't, they'll all die.
In real life, scientists don't know conclusively that prolonged sleep deprivation leads to death in humans, although studies done on rats have shown that a total lack of sleep will lead to death. However, there is plenty of evidence that even just a couple days without sleep can result in similar symptoms to those seen in "Awake," including difficulty concentrating, paranoia, memory problems, speech problems, tremors, hallucinations, anxiety, and paranoia.
After a few days without sleep, brain function deteriorates, which can lead to organ failure and potentially death. The world record in sleep deprivation is held by Randy Gardner , a man who, at the age of 17 in , stayed up for consecutive hours, or just about 11 days, and recovered fully afterward.
This is longer than Jill stays up in "Awake," yet she seems on the verge of death after just seven days. While staying awake for a week would definitely not be pleasant, it likely wouldn't be fatal for a person in good health. However, earlier in the film, Brian tells Jill that whatever caused the sleeplessness is causing symptoms to accelerate from the rate at which they'd typically appear.
He says that symptoms are appearing times quicker than they should, which shrinks the window of time in which humanity will be able to function without sleep. So while only a week has passed for Jill by the end of the film, the effects of sleeplessness on her body are probably closer to the symptoms for going without sleep for two or three weeks, past Gardner's record. It's probably not the greatest idea to put a bunch of semi-automatic weapons in the hands of people who are deep in the weeds of insomnia-induced psychosis, but that's exactly what the group at the Hub have done by the time Jill arrives with her children toward the end of the film.
Of course, the people making those decisions also had their judgment severely impaired due to their own sleep deprivation, so it's understandable that they'd make some bad calls. Unfortunately, this one turned out to be fatal for most of them. It all starts with a pinecone. After nearly a week of no sleep, one of the soldiers either hallucinates or merely incorrectly interprets the sluggish sensory signals sent to his brain, and thinks the pinecone lying harmlessly on one of the paths of the Hub is actually a grenade.
He kicks it out of the way and starts shooting at the imaginary bad guys he assumes are attacking, setting off a chain reaction of other soldiers hearing gunfire and also assuming they are under attack.
But due to their impaired cognitive function, paranoia, and heightened anxiety, the soldiers are incapable of differentiating between friend and foe.
This leads to them shooting each other, along with the various medical and scientific personnel at the Hub, since their sleep-deprived brains can't process what's really going on. At the beginning of "Awake," Dr. Murphy tells Jill that she's going with the military to the secret Hub in order to try to get to the bottom of what's happening. She reminds Jill that the two of them were the "get-answers people over there," and asks for her help again.
It's clear that Jill and Dr. Murphy previously served in the military together overseas, and that the nature of their work was something Jill is trying to distance herself from now.
Later, when Jill shows up at the Hub, we see that they've been running tests on the one woman they've found who can sleep. She seems to be being held against her will, asking Jill to help her escape, and implying that the tests have been relentless and invasive.
We also see that they've removed the skull cap from an alert chimpanzee. As she becomes more desperate to find answers, it seems Dr. All rights Reserved. All Images property of their respective owners. Digital Mafia Talkies. Privacy Policy. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Password recovery. Home Film. June 10, By Shikhar Agrawal. Powered by JustWatch. Notify of. Inline Feedbacks. Load More Comments. I have been working in the Indian Film Industry for the past 6 years, majorly writing dialogues for various films and television shows.
DMT Guide. Kelly in New Netflix Special. How To Watch on Peacock. Those who struggle with insomnia may want to think twice before watching Awake on Netflix, a new Gina Rodriguez thriller that will dial any sleep-related anxiety you may have up to The premise of Awake is pretty simple: Thanks to a mysterious global event, no one on earth can sleep anymore.
Well, almost no one. Writers Joseph and Mark Raso—the latter of whom also directed—throw out several different ideas throughout the course of Awake , and not everything comes together in a neat package. Jill Adams Gina Rodriguez is an ex-soldier, ex-drug addict, and current single mother struggling to make ends meet. But none of that matters after a mysterious global event causes technology to stop working, and people to stop sleeping.
Jill and her kids are driving when it happens, crash their car into a lake, but manage to survive.
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