“Wake Up” the film captures the true story of Jonas Elrod, a regular guy who literally woke up one day to something beyond extraordinary. After spending the night in a San Francisco hotel, he could suddenly see and hear things that he previously could not. What he saw he described as both beautiful and terrifying; colors, orbs of light, and even spirits who appeared before him in human form. Although he was understandably frightened by this and anxious about how others would perceive him, he courageously decided to do what these entities had begun communicating with him to do, which was to share what he was experiencing.
The film could have easily gone paranormal, but instead is a moving portrayal of one man’s humble spiritual journey. It deftly bypasses the “ghost hunter” angle and with great wisdom keeps the focus not on the apparitions, but rather on the man himself as he struggles to come to terms with his “gift” and what it means for his life and how he lives it. Jonas and the other filmmakers seem to innately understand that the most important question to be addressed here is why. Together with his supportive, loving, yet rightfully skeptic girlfriend Mara, he sets out to seek answers to some of life’s most profound questions.
“Wake Up” features a variety of healers, thinkers, and religious scholars that effectively serve to represent various ideas and philosophies both spiritual and scientific, and one of the most fascinating aspects of this film is not in where they all disagree, but rather in how often their ideas converge. “Wake Up” is an invitation to begin our own journey, and to ask our own questions, a process that Jonas shows does inevitably lead within. He shows us first hand what it means to wake up, as it is one thing to be woken up, and quite another to become awakened.
“Wake Up” is available to order on DVD by visiting www.wakeupthefilm.com
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