In class one week we watch the film, The Jacket, which was a great yet somewhat disturbing film. The movie is about a guy who is accused of a crime he did not commit. Yet unfortunatly he was injured in the event and can not remember what happen. The court sentences him to a mental hospital where a doctor performs usual and illegal experiments on him. He shoots the main character up with some sort of drug that causes him to hallucinate and locks him in a coroner's corpse cabinet. During these experiments the main character finds that he is able to travel into the future. While in the future he reconnects with a little girl from his past who is now grown and who also tells him that is going to die. The main character becomes obsessed with finding out how this will occur so that he may avoid it. The interesting aspect of the film is the transformation the character goes through. By the end of the movie he is no longer trying to save his own life but to help the girl he loves save her mother.
The film reminded me of another film called The Butterfly Effect. I think both show a human desire to control the outcomes of our lives but can't. This is something that a person must come to peace with to ever encounter the Divine because he is also outside our control
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