What Is ‘Wake Up’ About?
There are two stories inWake Up, and they will collide in deadly fashion.
The first revolves around six young friends who are animal rights activists.
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When we meet them, they are walking into a store just before closing time.
Once inside, they hide, waiting for everyone to leave.
The kids do all of this while two security guards are at another end of the store.
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The first time we see him, he’s outside building his own trap to kill a mouse.
Jack saves him from being fired, but Kevin sweats with rage.
He spends his time in the break room making homemade weapons and watching primitive hunting videos.
That’s a trapWake Upfalls into.
We know absolutely nothing about the six protagonists except that they are vandals.
There is no reason to sympathize with them unless you support that form of protest.
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Our heroes aren’t your usual sex-having, drug-doing protagonists, butthey still don’t feel like real people.
They’re mean, and they constantly put themselves in harm’s way for the plot’s sake.
They know there are guards in the store, but they don’t care.
Wake Up: Released in 2024, Wake Up follows a group of young activists whose environmental protest at a home superstore turns deadly when they encounter a deranged security guard. Trapped inside, the teenagers struggle to survive as they contend with the guard’s violent hunting pursuits.
The Judge is bringing change.
Kevin is for sure the villain, and he’s written to be one.
Still, he’s also sympathetic.
If he lived in Texas and liked eating people,this could be the origin story for Leatherface.
We know he shouldn’t, but at the same time, we almost can’t blame him.
They brought it on themselves.
Something more could have been done with that if everything aroundWake Upwasn’t so tame.
Trapped inside, the teenagers struggle to survive as they contend with the guards violent hunting pursuits.
