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 Jacob to tell him about sharing such experiences and is later killed when his car explodes. At the funeral, his surviving platoon-mates confess to Jacob they too have been seeing horrible hallucinations. Jacob is then approached by a man named Michael Newman, who claims to have been a chemist working with the Army's chemical warfare division in Saigon, where he worked on creating a drug that would increase aggression. The drug was code named "The Ladder" because it took people straight to their most primal urges. The drug was first tested on monkeys and then on a group of captured enemy combatants, with gruesome results. Later, small doses of "The Ladder" were secretly given to Jacob's battalion via their C-rations. Instead of targeting the enemy, however, men in Jacob's unit attacked each other indiscriminately in a fit of psychosis. This revelation insinuates that Jacob was bayoneted by one of his fellow soldiers.
The last scenes have Jacob returning to the apartment building he once lived in with Sarah. He enters and begins looking through an old shoe box, containing his memories and the pain he’s been clinging to, things like his dog tags and a picture of Gabe. Jacob then is surprised to see Gabe at the foot of the stairwell.
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Lyne's chilling film bombed in the States, probably because of its origins in the murkier side of the now done-to-death Vietnam War. But, messy and maddening though some of it is, Jacob's Ladder is also a truly scary film which is never simply a war or horror vehicle. Jacob Singer (Robbins) is a man whose life totters continually between past, present and future, between reality and terrifying illusion brought on by his experiences in Vietnam, where his unit was dosed with a vicious derivative of LSD to improve its killing power. Where the problem arises is that this scenario is only one alternative in the life of a man variously shown as divorced, studying and co-habiting, married and prosperous with children, or dead on a Vietnam field-hospital table. But Lyne's giddying, unsettling direction conjures up moments of horrifying hallucinogenic power from the bad-trip hell of his protagonist.Jacob's Ladder Movie Review

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Jacob wakes up in the New York City Subway with a copy of The Stranger in his hands. The film then shifts back and forth between Jacob's chaotic memories of Vietnam, as well as those of his late son Gabe (who was hit by a car and killed prior to the war) and ex-wife Sarah, to his present life (i.e. 1975) as a mailman living with a woman named Jezzie in Brooklyn. During this period, Jacob faces several threats to his life and experiences grotesque hallucinations.
At a key moment, Jacob's friend and chiropractor Louis cites the 14th century Christian mystic Meister Eckhart:
“ Eckhart saw Hell too. He said: "The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you," he said. "They're freeing your soul. So, if you're frightened of dying and... you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth." ”
As the hallucinations become increasingly bizarre, Paul, one of his old Army friends, contacts Jacob to tell him about sharing such experiences and is later killed when his car explodes.

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Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 American horror film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, and Danny Aiello. The story centers around Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer, whose experiences both prior to and during the war have resulted in strange flashbacks and bizarre hallucinations that continue to haunt him in his everyday life. Though only a moderately critical and financial success upon release, the film has garnered a cult following. It was also a major source of inspiration for the survival and psychological horror media franchise Silent Hill.The story begins on Ocober 6, 1971, when Jacob Singer is a soldier with the 1st Air Cav, deployed in a village in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War. Suddenly, his unit comes under heavy attack from the jungle while the soldiers around begin to exhibit very strange behavior, some going catatonic or into a bloody seizure. Jacob attempts to escape the unexplained insanity, only to be stabbed with a bayonet by an unseen attacker.