I habitually skip the synopsis. After reading the Chinese and English names, I began to guess the plot. However, as I am completely unfamiliar with the Bible, I did not understand the meaning of Jacob's Ladder. Jacob's Ladder comes from the Book of Genesis in the Bible. Jacob dreamed of a ladder connecting from the surface to heaven. After seeing the ending, when the only real world of the three dreams is revealed, all the mystery feels explainable. First of all, it is the origin of the hallucinations and monsters in the film. I think this should be the injury of the protagonist's abdomen that affected his dreams. Being kicked out of the house by his wife was the result of his guilt for not being able to go home and for his younger son. And being followed and hunted, comrades dying one by one, and hallucinogen experiments, as another up master's film review said, is because he couldn't believe that he was attacked by his colleagues, and he created a bridge to explain the rationality of this. . Masseuse Louie makes a key line in the film, "If you're afraid of death and you can't stop it, you'll see the devil take your life. But if you can take it easy, the devil will become an angel." . As part of Jacob's dream, the masseuse is persuading the male protagonist to accept death, which means that Jacob has realized that he is already on the verge of death, but he is unwilling to accept this fact and still tries his best to resist death. Finally, he finally accepted the fact that he was dying, no longer afraid of death, climbed the stairs with his dead son in a dream, and he left in reality. Giving up struggle and accepting death in a dream means real death, what if you don't give up? Is it the same ending, just adding a period of painful time or being able to persist in living? Of course, the main theme of this film is still anti-war, criticizing the various inhuman experiments of the US imperialists in the war and covering up the facts.
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