Cast:Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kelly Lynch, Brad Renfro, Daniel Craig, Steven Mackintosh, Brendan Coyle, Mackenzie Phillips, Laura Marano, Jason Lewis, Richard Dillane, Jonah Lotan, Angel Coulby, Paul Birchard,
After miraculously recovering from a bullet wound to the head, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) returns to Vermont in 1992, suffering from amnesia. Accused of murdering a police officer, he is found not guilty by reason of insanity, and is incarcerated in a mental institution. Starks becomes subject to the experiments of Dr. Thomas Becker (Kris Kristofferson), a psychiatrist. Starks is injected with an experimental drug and put into a straitjacket; he is then locked in a morgue drawer. While in this condition, Jack’s mind sends him into the future of late December 2007, where he discovers, amongst other things, that he is destined to die in four days from his first incarceration in the drawer in 1992. While in the future, Starks meets Jackie Price (Keira Knightley), whom he helped in 1992 returning from Vermont. At first, Jackie does not believe Jack’s story, but on subsequent trips to the drawer (and the future) she helps him learn how he is to die, in the process becoming attached to him. Jackie learns that Jack dies from head trauma, but visiting the mental institution no one there is able or willing to explain how it happened. With his time running out, Jack writes a letter explaining Jackie’s bleak future and gives it to Jackie’s mother (who died by burns when she fell unconscious with a cigarette.) On the return trip to the hospital, Jack slips on the ice and hits his head; bleeding profusely, he convinces the hospital workers to put him in the jacket one last time. Jack returns to 2007, where Jackie’s mother is still alive and she has a better life. The screen fades to white, and Jackie says "How much time do we have?" and the credits start to roll. Trailer:
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The Jacket comments / review
Date: 2010-01-17 13:51:25
User: PostFilm
It's been the better part of a century since Einstein explained that time had to be added to our concept of dimension, and that gravity was nothing more than the warpage of space-time around massive objects. Since then, physicists have seriously considered the possibilities of worm holes, tunnels through space-time that could provide shortcuts connecting widely separated regions of the universe; as well as CTC's, closed time-like curves, regions of space-time so warped that time bends back on itself, conceivably allowing one to travel back in time.
These things were brought to mind as I was watching "The Jacket," the 2005 movie starring Adrien Brody as a man who may be experiencing the consequences of accidental space-time warpage. Or the movie may be entirely symbolic, allegorical, or possibly psychological; take your pick.
Of course, we're all used to movies with flashbacks explaining some of their history, their back story, or movies with machines enabling characters to travel through time. But lately we've seen filmmakers pushing the limits of nonlinear storytelling with movies like "Memento," "Mulholland Drive," "Jacob's Ladder," "The Butterfly Effect," and "The Eye Inside." Yet "The Jacket" is perhaps more like Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" than anything else: The lead character has "become unstuck in time." Unlike Vonnegut's story, however, "The Jacket" involves no satire or comedy; it's meant to elicit straight dramatic thrills.
The question is whether its story would have held up if it weren't for its fancy narrative footwork. In all honesty, I'm not convinced the story holds up even with the intricate, time-shifting storytelling device it uses. What we get is mostly a convoluted tale that tries hard to seem far more important than it is. In fact, it's all rather banal and sentimental.
Most of the story is frantically set up in the first fifteen or twenty minutes and thereafter rather leisurely developed. Let me tell you about those opening minutes. Brody plays Jack Starks, an American soldier in the 1992 Gulf War who is shot in the head. "I was 27 years old the first time I died," Jack tells us.
A year later we see Jack hitchhiking along an isolated country road in Vermont and stopping to help a mother, Jean Price (Kelly Lynch), and her young daughter, Jackie (Laura Marano), with their stalled car. Jack explains to the girl that his dog tags are what identify him in case he can't remember who he is, but at her request he gives them to her. Then the mother and daughter take off without offering him a ride, and he is picked up by another fellow who promptly murders a policeman who pulls them over. Jack is grazed by a bullet, knocking him unconscious, and he's left with the murder weapon. He's tried and found not guilty by reason of insanity, and institutionalized in a mental hospital.
At the hospital, Jack is experimented upon by the head of the asylum, Dr. Thomas Becker (Kris Kristofferson), who straps him into a filthy, urine-soaked straightjacket, pumps him full of drugs, and locks him in a mortuary drawer. It's in these conditions that Jack begins to travel forward in time and back again. In 2007 he foresees his own death in 1993, meets and falls in love with the girl Jackie now grown up (Keira Knightley), and tries to find out who he really is and how he dies the second time.
Whew! That's a lot to happen in a few minutes, and it's quite an unlikely and complicated way to set up what turns out to be a fairly simple story. But it does suggest the movie's fundamental questions: Did Jack die in the Gulf War, and is everything in the movie happening in the split second before he succumbs? Is Jack hallucinating from Becker's treatment with drugs and confinement? Do the dead dream? Or is Jack actually moving through time?
Along the way, other problems have to be addressed. Like, how does Jack travel forward in time without physically changing or growing older? And if all this medical experimenting is really happening, why does no one in the mental hospital report Dr. Becker for his illegal practices? And what are the odds of meeting and recognizing the little girl, Jackie, after fifteen years? And what's with the Rudy Mackenzie character (Daniel Craig) as a fellow inmate? Why is he even in the picture?
Brody plays Jack with essentially one expression throughout the movie. The sensitivity Brody showed in his Oscar-winning "Pianist" performance only faintly glimmers here, the actor relying instead on a series of often vacant, bewildered stares. He seldom seems to get mad or panic or show much emotion of any kind, no matter how desperate his situation. Knightley, on the other hand, is good when she's playing the hard-drinking, chain-smoking waitress she starts out as, but she seems more than a little bland after cleaning up her act. Worse, there isn't a spark of chemistry between the two characters except when he's trying to convince her he's from the past and she despises him for it. Then they suddenly and inexplicably fall in love, and we wonder, huh? Where did that come from, except as an only-in-the-movies moment.
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