The Jacket

Nick Lynch

While I can understand the theme of sacrifice and how sacrifice ultimately leads to the "happy ending" in the film it disturbed me that all the trips to the future and all of the insight and revelations granted by them were facilitated by drugs, illegal drugs at that. The underlying message here is that Jack never would have been able to impact Dr. Becker, Dr. Lorenson, and Jackie without the aid of the drugs being pumped into him and never would have even approached the level of enlightenment that he did achieve. This speaks fairly poorly on the part of humanity in terms of being able to come to terms with themselves and their surroundings without some sort of artificial or chemical assisstance. While it was indeed a powerful film I am only questioning the means through which the intended effect was achieved.