The jacket
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The jacket |
| Original title | The jacket |
| Country of production | USA , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Maybury |
| script |
Massy Tadjedin Tom Bleecker Marc Rocco |
| production |
George Clooney Steven Soderbergh Peter Guber |
| music | Brian Eno |
| camera | Peter Deming |
| cut | Emma E. Hickox |
| occupation | |
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The Jacket is a psychological thriller film from 2005 that is very difficult to assign to a specific genre. On the one hand, the film contains elements of fantasy, mystery and thriller; on the other hand, it conveys melodramatic events that have been staged by the director - albeit sometimes unclear. Directed by John Maybury for Warner Independent Pictures . The film opened on March 4, 2005 in the United States. In Germany it was not shown in cinemas and was released on DVD on February 23, 2006.
The story of the film is based in part on the 1915 published novel The Star Rover by American writer Jack London , which as in England The Jacket and German as the straitjacket was issued.
action
The Gulf War veteran Jack Starks returns to his hometown in 1992 in the state of Vermont back after - miraculously - survived a headshot. He has had flare-ups of amnesia ever since .
On his way home he meets a girl with her drug addicted mother, whose car he repairs. The girl he gives as a keepsake his dog tag .
He hitchhiked on his way home and drove with a stranger who shot a policeman at a traffic stop. The stranger escapes, but Jack is accused of murder, declared insane, and sent to a mental hospital.
There he comes across the psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Becker, who carries out brutal experiments on patients. An experimental drug is tested on him and he is put in a morgue in a straitjacket . In the claustrophobic closeness of this closet and under the influence of the drug, he has hallucinations that supposedly let him see into the future.
In these hallucinations, at a gas station, he meets the waitress Jackie Price, who, it turns out, is the little girl Jack gave his dog tag to. When he found the brand on her and identified himself, she initially did not believe his statements, since the "real" Jack Starks died of a head injury on January 1, 1993 (current year 2007) and throws him From the flat. He also learns that her mother died in 1993 when she fell asleep in bed with a cigarette and died in the flames. Jackie never got over the death of her mother and has therefore become a mental wreck.
Jack relived the murder of the policeman in further hallucinations: At the traffic control he got out of the car, but the stranger suddenly shot at the policeman, who shot back. Jack was hit by the policeman and fell to the floor. The stranger cleaned the gun and threw it at Jack's feet.
Back in the mental hospital, their colleague Dr. Beth Lorensen on his. Jack wants to go back to the morgue to meet Jackie again, whom he loves and who is waiting for him. He manages to get locked up in the morgue again and in his hallucinations meets Jackie again, who now helps him to find out the circumstances surrounding his death. He learns the address of Jackie's mother and, back again, has Dr. Drive Lorensen there. He leaves a letter in which he warns her of her impending death - with success, Jackie's mother does not die and Jackie is fine.
When returning with Dr. Lorensen to the institution, Jack falls unhappy and injures his skull. Before he dies, he lets Dr. Lock Lorensen again in the morgue to return to 2007, where Jackie will pick him up. They keep driving, the screen turns white, and a voiceover shows that the connection to the "previous" future is not lost when Jackie says, "How much time do we have?", A question she asked him earlier. As the credits begin, the answer to the question is given by the words of the song: “ We have all the time in the world ” , sung by Iggy Pop .
Alternative endings
There are several alternate endings for this film that make it clearer that the entire plot of the film is really just Jack's desperate last-ditch effort to come to terms with his life.
reception
The film received mixed reviews when it was released. Stella Papamichael of the BBC compared him to the films 12 Monkeys , Jacob's Ladder and Memento , but found that he couldn't match the elegance or visual impact of those films. Philip French of the Guardian called him a disappointment and his colleague Andrew Pulver criticized his incoherence, saying that the mixture of mystery and thriller was not very successful.
Awards
- 2006 - Nomination for a Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film
- 2007 - Jupiter for Best DVD Premiere
success
With an estimated budget of $ 28 million, the film grossed just $ 6.3 million at the US box office.
Web links
- The Jacket in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Jacket atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Jacket . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2005 (PDF; test number: 103 567 DVD).
- ↑ The Jacket. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on April 24, 2016 ; accessed on September 16, 2018 .
- ↑ The Jacket. In: Box Office Mojo . Accessed September 16, 2018 (English, detailed box office results).