Nathan Davis The Jacket

The film The Jacket was very strange but interesting. While watching the film i noticed a lot of symbols and characteristics such as, crosses and graveyards, and toombstones arranged as a cross in the snow. The idea of a Gulf War veteran being shot in the head in the beginning was hard to handle, and then when he got framed for murder, then put into a mental institution was also crazy. He has been through a number of hard times such as the war but none was as hard as being sentenced to a mental institution. While in the mental place he was put through a number of expierements, but none as straining as the jacket and being enclosed into a tiny box, which was like where they place dead people in at the morge. It is through the box and the jacket that he reaches a totally different spirtiual realm, and is even able to see and live in the future. It is in the future where he begins to help out others with very unselfish acts and try to prove that he is not totally crazy or insane. The purpose of him being placed into the box was to create a womb like environment that would hopefully give rebirth to the person placed there. In his case it was a place of horrible memories and adventures into the future. He helped the doctor with Bebeck to cure him of his problems and gained a friend who was willing to listen to him so he can go and save the lives of the initial family he helped on the side of the road when their car was broken down.
His real body died in the drawer, but it was through his expierences that he in the jacket that he was able to help others. I had a mixed reaction to this film and personally believe that the drawer can symbolize a number of places that people can try to go in harsh times to escape reality, although he was forced into the drawer and jacket. overall i believe this was an excellent film and really showed how motivated individuals can make enormous changes in the world.