The new movie Awareness, directed by Daniel Benmayor, has quite an interesting premise to grab the audience’s attention. A young adult named Ian has some special powers that make him the target of a mysterious organization that wants to hunt him down. In between all this, there’s another man who wants to find Ian, but his motives remain unclear. Awareness borrows from a lot of films and tries to come up with something new. It has a bunch of eclectic characters and a plot twist so shocking that it will surely make you question reality. Ian’s character is particularly interesting, as he doesn’t know who he really is. Apart from the power of manipulating people’s perceptions, the other intriguing feature of the character is that perhaps his father wasn’t really who he thought he was. His quest to uncover his true identity becomes a catalyst for the plot,...
- 10/14/2023
- by Ayush Awasthi
- Film Fugitives
There have been great films like The Matrix regarding the manipulation and rift between perception and reality. Consciousness is an unfathomable mystery that science hasn’t been able to explain. There is great intrigue, and perhaps this is tied to the new advancement in AI. Awareness, the new film by Daniel Benmayor, is hell bent on creating a narrative that would make us understand that perception creates reality. It’s indeed an interesting idea. The characters are in a world that reminds us of one of the 1980s Hollywood films. A teen-ish boy, an alcoholic father, and their existence in isolation on a boat. The plot seems to have taken memorable elements of The Terminator and The Matrix, which were then mixed together to prepare a decent concoction. There is a line in this film echoing the famous Schwarzenegger line, ‘Come with me if you want to live’. The film...
- 10/12/2023
- by Ayush Awasthi
- Film Fugitives
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