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The Jacket

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The Jacket	label	The Jacket
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The Jacket	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Jacket is a 2005 independent film starring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley. Jack Starks (Brody) is a gulf war veteran that survived a nearly fatal gunshot wound to the head. Upon returning home, Jack meets a young girl and her mother stranded on the side of the road. He helps the pair by fixing their car. Later, Jack hitches a ride with a young man headed north, but when the two men are pulled over by a police officer, Jack spontaneously suffers an amnesiac black out.When he awakes, he is in court and is being held responsible for the murder of the police officer. The jury determines he is not guilty on account of insanity, and Jack is locked away in Alpine Groves, an asylum for the criminally insane. There, Jack undergoes experimental treatment for his supposed mental illness, and he begins experiencing strange visions of the future. In these visions, he encounters a grown version of the girl he previously met (Knightley), and he learns startling truths of upcoming events.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Over time Jack learns to control and manipulate his visions so he can uncover more of the mystery surrounding Alpine Groves, his alleged mental illness, and the history of the girl he encountered. With this knowledge, Jack sets out to right several wrongs in the lives around him, and to potentially find freedom from the asylum. Time is running out, however, as he uncovers an unexpected side-effect to the experiments...
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The Jacket / int_19b6f396	type	Alternate Timeline
The Jacket / int_19b6f396	comment	Alternate Timeline: Jack supposedly creates one by writing his Epilogue Letter.
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The Jacket / int_1ad42ecd	type	The Glasses Come Off
The Jacket / int_1ad42ecd	comment	The Glasses Come Off: Dr Lorenson's future self is distinguished from the past by not wearing her glasses anymore.
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The Jacket / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Jacket / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Jackie's father is not around.
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The Jacket / int_29292e6d	type	Walking the Earth
The Jacket / int_29292e6d	comment	Walking the Earth: After being discharged, Jack spends most of his time on the road.
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The Jacket / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
The Jacket / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Subverted. Jackie's mother nicknamed her 'Petal'. Jack tells Jean to keep calling her that, saying he thinks she likes it really.
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The Jacket / int_3f267047	type	Voiceover Letter
The Jacket / int_3f267047	comment	Voiceover Letter: Jack narrating his letter toward the end.
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The Jacket / int_3f32da0f	type	Electroconvulsive Therapy Is Torture
The Jacket / int_3f32da0f	comment	Electroconvulsive Therapy Is Torture: Subverted! Jack learns from the future that Dr Lorenson helped Babak with his seizures via ECT. When her past self hears this, she's merely unsure about using the procedure on a child - but goes through with it and sure enough...
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The Jacket / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
The Jacket / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: The screen fades to white and a female voice asks "How much time do we have?". The alternate endings are even more ambiguous, with at least one implying that the entire film is a Dying Dream from when he was shot in Iraq.
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The Jacket / int_5148024	type	Locked into Strangeness
The Jacket / int_5148024	comment	Locked into Strangeness: Dr Becker is completely grey when Jack meets him in the future.
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The Jacket / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
The Jacket / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death: Jack and Jackie are visiting a snowed in graveyard. Also Jack's apparent death happens in the snow when he slips on ice.
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The Jacket / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
The Jacket / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Jack discovers that Jackie's mother Jean passed out one night while smoking a cigarette and burned to death. He changes her fate however as Jackie is on the phone to her in the alternate future.
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The Jacket / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Jacket / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "I was 27 years old the first time that I died"...
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The Jacket / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Jacket / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Subverted. Jack appears to change the future with his actions, but Jackie also seems to be aware of the alternate timeline where her mom died.
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The Jacket / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Jacket / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Come back to me, Jack!"
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The Jacket / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Jacket / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Jean, Jackie's mother.
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The Jacket / int_7efd2e30	type	Expository Hairstyle Change
The Jacket / int_7efd2e30	comment	Expository Hairstyle Change: Dr Lorenson has curly hair in Jack's present. When he sees her in the future, her hair is a little shorter and straight.
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The Jacket / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Jacket / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Damon, the mean orderly, ultimately ends up a patient at the hospital.
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The Jacket / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Jacket / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The guy who picked up Jack while hitchhiking and then killed the cop (landing Jack in the hospital in the first place) is last seen drinking at a bar, seemingly off the hook.
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The Jacket / int_aa809887	type	Blipvert
The Jacket / int_aa809887	comment	Blipvert: Jack's visions when in the isolation chamber are presented as flashing images in quick succession.
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The Jacket / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
The Jacket / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: The experimental drug and treatment apparently gives Jack these sort of dreams.
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The Jacket / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The Jacket / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: The entire movie.
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The Jacket / int_c39dd4d	type	Fade to White
The Jacket / int_c39dd4d	comment	Fade to White: How the film ends.
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The Jacket / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
The Jacket / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Jack, to a fault. His introductory scene has him politely trying to talk to a young boy. This ends up getting him shot.
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The Jacket / int_c6c5ce4	type	Bedlam House
The Jacket / int_c6c5ce4	comment	Bedlam House: The mental hospital is full of sadists. Though in the future, with Dr Lawrenson now in charge, it seems a little better.
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The Jacket / int_f792bc7b	type	Dying Dream
The Jacket / int_f792bc7b	comment	Dying Dream: One of the alternate endings uses this, showing that Jack dies shortly after waking in the army medical tent. He never returned to America to begin with, nor did he go to a mental hospital, and Jackie never existed. Used partially in the actual ending, where Jack is dying from his pre-ordained trauma to the head (turns out to be from slipping in the hospital parking lot) during his last future visit/vision/whatever, where he is able to see that Jackie turns out much better with her mother alive.
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