Sleep when it’s deprived it’s dangerous and when it’s fulfilled right, it can make your waking life at ease. But can you really get something good out of not sleeping? Many people will say they can survive without sleep for 24hrs, other may have 48hrs but what do we really do for us to not sleep? I know, watching TV series can get you to a no sleep mark for at least 24hrs, school can keep you awake especially when it is exam days or maybe even hobbies like playing video games, reading books but how long can you really keep yourself awake without dozing off?

Well, a new Thai movie was release in Netflix recently and it’s all about sleep. Although this is not the first film which tackled sleep, dreams and other things, my favorite was Inception and yeah, that’s the one that made me interested about dreams and astral bodies and etc… yeah, I geek on that. So anyway, I would like to highlight this movie because

it’s very relevant nowadays especially it’s lockdown and everyone is not getting enough sleep doing things they wanna do but the question is, how far can go and what will you do if someone pays you to be awake for a lifetime?

The movie is all about a German pharmaceutical company which is developing a project that is collecting Qratonin which is collected from the human brain. This company is willing to pay the people who are wants to enter the trial. This trial needs the individuals to stay awake for a certain time.

Which leads us to the four main characters who are all studying in the same med school. The first one is Jane played by Panisara Rikulsurakan, who is suffering from OCD which makes her overthink things and obsessively checks her grandmother, and the locks in their house, and has a financial problems so money is definitely a big yes for her. The second one is Win played by Kay Lertsittichai, a party boy who never sleeps, he just go to clubs night after night. The third one is Cin played by Supanaree Sutavijitvong, who is an influencer and doing her videos every night makes her awake. The last one is Peach played by Krit Jeerapattananuwong, a nerdy gamer who just plays video games all night and watches Cin along the side.

The whole project is called Deep. The main purpose is to collect Qratonin so the subjects cannot fall asleep. The company gave them chips that were inserted at the back of their necks. This micro chip will collect the Qratonin and possibly kill the subjects in case they fall asleep for 1 minute. I know, they have a way to control it. The fours students were actually given watches to measure the Qratonin that they are producing. The first challenge took them at least 3 days which made them earn 100,000 baht. 3 days were not that big for them it’s normal so they decided to do the second challenge which took for a week. Since they knew each other they made sure that all of them will stay awake or else, they will be killed. The week long of not sleeping was very hard for them so when they crack they code on how to deal with the exhaustion, they finished the second challenge but all of them turned down the third stage of Deep because they know that they won’t be able to make it in the end. Until something unexpected happened. I won’t spoil so, you need to watch it for yourself.

The verdict

I liked how they talked about the importance of having a good night sleep and what insomniacs are experiencing every night coz, I’m an insomniac myself and it’s pretty hard to sleep at night but sometimes not being able to sleep really gives you more time to do things that you wanted however in the day you will feel so bad for not having a sleep coz you’ll be grumpy and all.

I bet it is actually good if you’re gonna be paid for not sleeping coz, yeah, I think I will be rich by that time but I don’t think that I can do whatever they did because yeah, we certainly need sleep. Like it’s part of our body and if we don’t take it for at least a week, we can be literally dead.

I give this movie an 85% wonderroanne rating. I liked it and I recommend everyone to watch it because everyone will learn something.