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- From: kinsman@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Aphoriel/Kinsman)
- Subject: Re: Jacobs Ladder
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.024833.14102@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
- Organization: University of New Brunswick
- References: <1992Dec27.162926.7638@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> <1992Dec29.020157.11546@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <1992Dec29.022747.3990@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 02:48:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.022747.3990@news.eng.convex.com> ramon@convex.com (Ramon Dominguez) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec29.020157.11546@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> kinsman@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Aphoriel/Kinsman) writes:
- >=>[Jake] died in the vet hospital. (This is what they kept flashing back to;
- >=>the ending scene reveals that MC was dead all along throughout the movie.)
- >=>[Jake] spends several years in purgatory, or more precisely a semi-hell for
- >=>people whose afterlife fates are undecided.
- >
- >No no no no no no...
- >
- >Jake was dying throughout the entire movie. The movie was what was going on
- >in Jake's mind while he was dying. Louie explained it to Jake; he said that
- >dying people who attempted to hold onto life were tormented by demons until
- >they let go.
- >
- D
- No no no no no NO...
-
- Jake [thank you]'s "dream" lasted for years and years...
-
- It seems more sensible that he would be dead. In theories of the supernatural,
- it has been postulated that for dead people, there is a 'zone' which hovers
- right before the proper afterlife, where confused dead people who don't under-
- stand that they are dead, ghosts and whatnot, live. Also, the semantics of
- Louie's statement could be interpreted differently...
-
- -Person is dying
- -Person attempts to hold onto life as he dies
- -Person dies
- -Person is tormented by demons in this semi-hell
- -Person lets go and is saved
-
- Louie himself [I am assuming Louie was the Ladder researcher, discard this
- paragraph entirely if that is wrong] was also dead. I believe that him
- explaining to Jake about the "Ladder" drug vindicated both of them; Louie
- gets it off his chest and can go off to the afterlife, while Jake starts
- to figure out what's going on.
-
- -Sean Givan/ Aphoriel/Kinsman
-
- D
- D
- >
- >--
- >Ramon Dominguez | "Work is the curse of the drinking class"
- >Convex Computer Corporation | --Oscar Wilde
- >ramon@convex.com | "Ceci n'est pas une .signature file"
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