Jacob's Ladder (Лестница Иакова) HDTVRip

Posted By : Avax | Date : 24 Aug 2009 10:11:00 | Comments : 1 |

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Jacob's Ladder (Лестница Иакова)
HDTVRip | H.264 1280 x 696 MKV | Audio: Dolby AC3 6 Channels, 384 Kbps | 1h:55min | 4,81 Gb
IMDB: 7.5/10 | Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Language: English, Russian (2 Voice) | Subtitles: N/A
Studio: Carolco Pictures, Inc. (USA) | Director: Adrian Lyne; Writer: Bruce Joel Rubin | 1990 Year
Cast: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven, Patricia Kalember, Pruitt Taylor Vince

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“Jacob's Ladder is a masterpiece. Nothing less. It has a highly intelligent plot though not difficult or artsy and is void of cliches. It therefore confuses and aggravates many viewers and professional reviewers always wanting a standard has-it-all Hollywood outpouring.

It is so few films that leaves room for independent thoughts. Jacob's Ladder tumbles your mind the same way a dream of your own does. I have never felt this effect in a film so strong before. The images comes pouring in and your brain tries to make sense of it. Whenever you think you have a grasp it slides away again.

The brilliance of the progression of the story, twists and turns, and the final explanation, so obvious but elusive as real dreams are, makes it on par with the best of Kubrick.” – IMDb.com

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“'This criminally underrated masterpiece of psychological horror broadsided audiences who were expecting ... well, come to think of it, what were they expecting, exactly? Billed and promoted as a kind of pseudo-Argento horror experience, it's in fact one of the bleakest head-trip movies ever – a closer cousin to films like Roman Polanski's “The Tenant” than “Friday the 13th”.

Opening with Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) in Vietnam, the movie flashes forwards to his life back in the States, where he lives an isolated existence as a postal clerk. He has a shy, touching relationship with a girl (Elizabeth Pena) he has met at the post office, but he cannot seem to really connect with people. Something in him has been damaged, it seems, by the horror of the war. Worse, he's hallucinating badly and suffering from flashbacks.

Slowly a plot emerges. We see shots of him before the war, happy, with a wife and son, and then learn that he may have been used as a subject for unorthodox drug experiments. He meets other vets who are similarly disturbed, and a gentle chiropractor (Danny Aiello) who has some sage words of advice about his past and future. And then we get a series of unsettling scenes that subvert everything we have seen and force us to read it in an unsettling new way – which of course would be absolutely criminal to reveal here.

Let's face it – this isn't a fun movie. It's bleak, depressing, disturbing, and ends on the darkest possible note. But it's also made with absolutely consummate skill and complete assurance in the material. This wasn't a hatchet job, but a real piece of art, and it needs to be seen in that light.” – Amazon.com

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