How much time do we have?

Wiley 2021-12-11 08:01:36

Participated in the Gulf War, Jack was left behind with avoidant amnesia. After being framed by a "buddy" as the murderer of the police, he was sentenced to enter the prison by the court. Jack was put in a morgue for experimentation. When he struggled and hopelessly, he found that he had the ability to transcend time and space. Jackie, a little girl who passed by. Jackie told him in 2007 that Jack had died long ago, and the cause of death was a blow to the head. Later, with Jackie's help, Jack used the short time beyond the future in the morgue to search for his own cause of death. However, there was no result. When returning to the hospital from Ji'an's house, Jack got out of the car and fell to his head and died. Before he died, Jack murmured to ask Laurenson beside him to put on his jacket as soon as possible. He was carried into the morgue and fell asleep permanently. He returned to Jackie in 2007 and never had to worry about leaving again.
Jackie's mother died in the fire, Jack foresaw. In order to be able to change the future and save Jackie's happiness, he rushed to Jackie's house one day before Jack's death and handed Ji An a letter. "It's not what I need, but you." Jack said to Ji An. Ji An has a bad temper, her husband died early, smoking and drinking, excessive indulgence, and even ignored the love for her daughter Jackie. Fortunately, the messenger convinced Ji An and realized her negligence, she ran to her daughter who was watching TV. , I kissed her, I believe it was the deepest kiss from the heart, the most contradictory kiss where regret and happiness coexist.
"It was a war. I felt life, but what we really experienced was death. Sometimes we experienced many things just to be able to say that they did happen, not to others, but to us. Yes. When we live, it is to turn the impossible into possible." These are the words in Jack's letter to Ji An. It was such a simple letter, it must have touched Ji An in the deepest, so that she could live with her daughter forever, so that Jackie would not be reduced to a lone child.
For us, this is not something that is enough to make us spiritually awakened.
The director designed the role of Jack and gave him a peculiar ability to traverse, nothing more than to tell us this truth at the end, everything boils down to two words, no too "cherish". When we are convinced that we do not want to face the unfortunate and tragic ending, when we still have the ability to remedy it, start now. Transcending time and space and changing the present is too ethereal after all.
We are impetuous, we often complain about others, we always ignore or abandon the good things we have inadvertently, but how much time do we have?
The ending of the movie is beautiful. When Jack and Jackie meet again, we don’t have to worry about parting; when Jackie receives a phone call from her mother, talking about some family trivial matters; when the golden sunlight gradually covers the smiling faces of Jack and Jackie, all the good things continue. .

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The Jacket quotes

  • Jack Starks: Join the Organization! The Organization needs you! Fight the good fight!

  • Jackie Price: How you doing?

    Jack Starks: Better now.