The Jacket-Melissa Faller

The film The Jacket was very interesting to me. While watching it I sat there and wondered what I would do if I was able to change situations around me. Would I want to know how I was going to die? Or if my friends were going to still be my friends tomorrow or weeks from now? This got me thinking that I would probably not want to know these details. In the film The Jacket the main character Starks put into a mental institution because he is found not guilty to a murder due to insanity. It is there where Starks under goes medical trials. These medical trials consist of pumping Starks with a lot of drugs and sticking him into a straight jacket. While in the straight jacket he is stuffed into a draw where he spends many hours there. The draw is supposed to represent a womb, or rebirth. Starks realizes that if he relaxes he is able to remove himself from the box and go to the future. Throughout the medical experiments Starks is able to help save a friends Mom, and also predict how he is going to die. This is when I began to think would I want to be able to change things around me, maybe save the ones around me? My first instinct is to say that I would. I would want to keep my family and friends from their deaths to selfishly keep them around, but the other part of me feels that a lot of pressure lies in the hands of something that can change and manipulate the future. It is here that I decided that it is better to leave future to someone who is not as selfish. For if I was able to control the future I would be able to manipulate it to my own benefit, and as much as I would love to say that I would be reasonable and consider others feelings I think that put in certain situations this could be a dangerous ability to have control over. I realized that life would no longer be worth living if I knew exactly where I was going to end up. If I knew where I was going to be the next day? Why would I even want to live it?