30 Years and The Jacob’s Ladder Generation
Traversing life, one step at a time.
The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won’t let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They burn ’em all away. But they’re not punishing you…They’re freeing your soul. If your frightened of dying, and your holding on, you’ll see devils tearing your life away. If you’ve made your peace then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.
— Bruce Joel Rubin, Jacob’s Ladder
There’s a lingering feeling of being disconnected from reality or being unmoored from your own body.
I don’t recall the very first time I saw Jacob’s Ladder (1990), but I most certainly recall how it made me feel…seen and serene. In the back of my mind, there’s always been an uneasiness or uncertainty about ‘life’ regarding what’s real and what’s not. There’s a lingering feeling of being disconnected from reality or being unmoored from your own body. Many persons have this gnawing feeling constantly and have difficulty expressing the day-to-day existence of seeing yourself outside of yourself.
Even now, I’m having difficulty parceling out my thoughts about the limbo that Jacob’s Ladder explores, or the surreality outside of the film. The tell-tale signs that…
