Comments on: Jacob’s Ladder https://www.cultfilminreview.com/episode-115-jacobs-ladder/ The films you love, but no one else gets... Sat, 15 Jun 2024 16:40:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.26 By: fj https://www.cultfilminreview.com/episode-115-jacobs-ladder/#comment-1686 Thu, 10 Aug 2017 03:52:44 +0000 http://www.cultfilminreview.com/?p=2146#comment-1686 i think you guys are trying to be waaaaaay to literal. this movie is meant to have several readings. to say that it’s just a dream is simplistic, and trying to find something concrete in something that was meant to be open for multiple ways of understandings. it is about PTSD, it is about military experiments and flashbacks from both war and drugs, it is about purgatory and it is about letting go of life. it is all of those things, and you can make a solid case for each. the point— at least to me is that it is all of those things, and point is what the chiropractor said, it’s all in a matter of your perspective if these things are angels or demons, if they are real life or purgatory, etc…

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