Jacob's Ladder

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freeing your soul." The
chiropractor also says that the way he sees it, "If you're frightened of dieing
and you keep trying to hold on you'll see devils tearing your life away. If
you've made your peace then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the
earth." The film Jacob's Ladder uses the character of Jacob Singer to
demonstrate how the film's creators view death and afterlife. The central
character in the film is a man by the name of Jacob Singer (Jake), who is in
Vietnam in 1971 fighting for the U.S. against the Vietcong. The film begins with
a surprise attack by the Vietcong on the American camp which started a furious
gun fight with heavy casualties. Jake is himself severely wounded in the stomach,
which as you find out later is a mortal wound of which he is dieing. The rest
of the film appears to take place over a period of days to weeks or at least
that is how Jake perceives it to be, however as far as time goes this is all
taking place between the time that ...

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from earth and can enter heaven. This is why Jezebel burns the family
pictures, so that Jake will not remember his family, to erase his memory of
them.

From time to time in the film Jake will flashback to memories of Vietnam during
that period of time when he was wounded and being brought to the hospital.
Almost like little images or clips that he picked up as he came in and out of
consciousness. These images that he recalls are really Jake's periods of
greatest resistance to death, where he is fighting hell's attempts at taking his
memories and attachments. During these periods throughout the film Jake is
really coming back to life for brief moments. The harder Jake tries to fight ...

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