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Audio Format: DD 5.1, DD 2.0
Video Format: Widescreen 2.35:1 (Anamorphic)
Languages: Korean
Subtitles: English
Region Code: 1
Year Made: 2007
Running Time: 111
Release Date: 08/12/2008
Who is the criminal? A heart-stopping cerebral battle begins!
‘Wide Awake’ is a thriller that starts with a young child and his terrible
experience of ‘anaesthesia awareness’. It seems that one of the main
characters in ‘Wide Awake’ is that child, Na Sangu. But who is Na
Sangu, with a new name and personality? Is it Ryu Jaeu, a thinking man
at work and a loving husband at home? Is it Jaeu’s best friend, the
quiet and composed anaesthetist Jang Seokho? The psychiatrist and
talented hypnotist O Chihun? Or perhaps Gang Ukhwan, suddenly
arrived off a plane from America?
Welcome to a labyrinthine plot, starting with an unexpected death, where
everyone becomes a suspect. ‘Wide Awake’ is the mystery thriller that
charms audiences by bringing fresh angles and hidden subplots to the
basis of a classic thriller. Constantly taking turns into the unexpected, it
will keep you guessing right to the very end.
The days of monotony are over ? ‘Wide Awake’ brings fresh subject
matter to the thriller genre.
‘Wide Awake’’s premise of ‘anaesthesia awareness’ is an unfamiliar piece
of medical jargon to most of us. But its meaning ? feeling all the pain of
an operation despite being under anaesthesia ? more than suffices to
bring home the sheer, unimaginable pain involved. Although ‘anaesthesia
awareness’ is still not an officially recognized medical phenomenon,
incidences of it are reported in academic circles.
But ‘Wide Awake’ is not simply about what ‘anaesthesia awareness’ means.
It focuses on the identity, today, of a young boy who suffered accidental
‘anaesthesia awareness’ twenty years ago. ‘Return’ takes the audience with
it on a powerful journey in search of the mystery figure. Casting off the
mould of the conventional thriller, based on infatuation, money or pure
madness, ‘Wide Awake’ will make a lasting impression in the minds of
audiences.
A happy life rocked by incident
Surgeon Ryu Jaeu gains recognition from his colleagues for carrying out
Korea’s first ever operation using hypnotic anaesthesia, together with
psychiatrist O Chihun. Jaeu ignores opposition from his surgical partner,
anaesthetist Jang Seokho. But with the return of childhood friend Gang
Ukhwan, strange events start to unfold in the lives of Jaeu and his wife.
One day, Jaeu’s wife collapses with an inexplicable fever. Jaeu himself
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