Steph Dunn- In Class #1 The Jacket

A couple weeks ago we got to watch the movie "The Jacket" starring Adrian Brody and Kiera Knightly. At first I was just excited about staring at Adrian Brody for two hours, but was pleasantly surprised by the multidimensional aspects of this film. It follows a Vietnam war veteran, Jack Starks, who is struggling with amnesia. He is hitch hiking on the side of the road and gets picked up by a strange guy. The next thing he knows he is being put in an asylum for a double homicide. The doctor decides that he will be the perfect candidate for a new type of therapy including a straight jacket. The process is started off by a number of shots and then he is shoved into a body drawer in the basement of the asylum. When he is in the straight jacket his mind goes somewhere else. He sees glimpses of his future along with flashbacks of the past. He finds out that he is supposed to die in four days. This movie inflicted my mind with many thoughts. The first one was, what would I do if I knew I was going to die in four days? I kept remembering the fact that we are not promised everyday, each day is a God given gift and we need to glorify him through everything we do. There are so many days that I just try and get through, and don't even think it could be my last. It is so important to live with that mindset so we can live our lives to the full by constantly doing the work of the Lord. I enjoyed this movie because it showed Jack fighting for something, his life. I need to live in the mindset that I am fighting the oppression of the devil for the lives of God's children. I should constantly be living as an example and being a light among the darkness of this world.