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Actors: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Jennifer Jason Leigh
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Jacket |
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Jack Starks (Brody) is a US soldier in Iraq circa 1991 where is shot in the head by a young Iraqi boy. Starks lives, with some brain damage, and is shipped home to Vermont. One day he stops to help a girl and her drunken mother. Their truck won't start but Starks fixes it and they move along. Shortly after Starks is picked up by a driver and given a ride, but the driver is soon pulled over by the local police. The driver inexplicably kills the officer and runs off. Starks, amnesiac that he is, is blamed.
Deemed criminally insane Starks is shipped off to a mental hospital/prison wehere Dr. Becker (Kristofferson) performs illegal mental therapy on him. Starks is placed in a straightjacket and left in a morgue's cadaver chamber. There Starks slips in and out of reality. In his dreams he meets Jackie (Knightley), the little girl he helped before being arrested. But Jackie is all grown up; it's been 15 years, and she tells Starks that he was killed in 1993. In his mind, Starks returns to the hospital/prison where he accuses Becker of killing him.
--P Cohen, Resident Scholar
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Jack Starks is a Gulf War vet who after being shot in the head during battle is discharged. After an altercation with a con and an officer, he is falsely accused of murder and sentenced to life in a mental institution. A doctor forces him to undergo a severe medical experiment in which he is strapped in a straitjacket and thrown in a body drawer in the hospital's morgue.
Soon, Jack discovers he can time travel to the future under stress, and meets up with a twenty-two year old Jackie, the same Jackie whom he met fifteen years earlier, when she was a child. Jack realizes to his horror that he is dead in Jackie's future, and quickly wants to know why. Together, they try to figure out how to save Jack before he dies.
--Jessica, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Jacket |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 70%
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?**
- fantasy story on present day Earth
Time Travel:
- primarily to the future
Spying - Investigations
Yes
What is main char. doing?
- finding a killer (criminal)
Time Travel Story?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
- accused criminal
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
- mentally ill
- deluded
- emotionally unstable
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) crewcut/very short
Body type
- very skinny (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
- (woman) long wavy
Body type
- very skinny (female)
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 40%
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- a fight for survival
Age:
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- doctor
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity
- White
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physical condition
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Earth setting:
- 20th century (1970's to Present)
- near future (later in 21st century)
- distant future
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Big cities?
Yes
Misc settings
- prison
- mental hospital
- bar/restaurant
Kind of city
- Dirty, crime-ridden (like NY)
Small town?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Tone of movie
- depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- licking
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude male butt
- sex under blankets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
- Some foul language
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