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Movies;Infernal Combustion;`Jacob's Ladder'; On the Rung Way to Hell
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The Washington Post
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November 2, 1990
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What happens after you die? Well, you can go to the "good"
place and be attended by angels. Or you can go to the "bad" place.
The "bad" place, by all accounts, is no day at the beach-fire,
brimstone, reruns of "Love, American Style." Nothing, though, not
even hell, could be as bad as "Jacob's Ladder."
The comparison isn't gratuitous. The subject of life and
death-specifically what happens to a young infantryman named Jacob
Singer (Tim Robbins) after he's rammed through the gut by a bayonet
during the Vietnam War-is the main topic of discussion here. And
it's the film's pretentions to seriousness, to weighing in on the big
issues, complete with quotations from Meister Eckhart and ...
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