Lauren Rule- The Jacket (Movie Blog #4)

The Jacket  was a really good movie.  I love Kira Knightly so I was really excited about this movie.  Jack was a Gulf War vet with extremely bad luck.  He gets killed in action during the war, but miraculously comes back to life.  Jesus Christ died for his cause and was resurrected to finish his work.  Jack, on the other hand, did not find his purpose until after his first death.  He helps out a mother and daughter with their car.  The mother is clearly unstable, but the young girl is sweet.  Jack's bad luck is just beginning when he accepts a ride from the wrong person.  He is framed for the murder of a police officer and is sentenced to a hospital for the criminally insane.  Jack is neither a criminal nor insane.  He has some brain damage from his fatal injury which leaves gaps in his memory, but he is not insane.  Stuck in a horrible situation, Jack makes a friend in the asylum.  The man claims he murdered his wife when really she left him and he nearly starved himself to death.  One of the doctors in the hospital uses Jack as an guinea pig for his experiments.  He locks him up in a straight jacket in a morgue drawer.  Jack hallucinates visions of the future.  All the previous subjects died during the process, except Jack's friend.  His friend was undergoing 'treatment' until the other doctor began to worry about his treatment.  It seemed the doctor killed them; he tried to save these men then became their executioner.  The past mistakes of the doctor haunt him, forcing him to turn to God.  When Jack goes back to try and find out how he died; it seemed everyone he tried to talk to was somehow touched by him.  This is another parallel with Jesus.  Jack experienced a spiritual journey facilitated by time traveling.  In shamanism, it was the drugs which brought visions to help others.  In this case, however, Jack associated his visions with the jacket.  He was also injected with drugs so I'm not sure if it really was the jacket or not.  In the end, he changed the life of the woman he really cared about, Jackie.  I don't know if he would have died anyway, but he cracked his head after delivering the letter to Jackie's mother.  It's plausible he wouldn't have had to worry about his death if he wasn't concerned with Jackie's happiness.  Jack, like Jesus, sacrificed his own life to help the lives of others.