Jacob’s Ladder
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1990 |
| Country | United States |
| Director | Adrian Lyne |
| Cast | Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven, Pruitt Taylor Vince |
| Genre | Psychological thriller |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | Jacob’s Ladder | – |
| Español | La escalera de Jacob | La escalera de Jacob |
| Français | L’Échelle de Jacob | L’Échelle de Jacob |
| Deutsch | Jacob’s Ladder | Jacob’s Ladder |
| Português | Alucinações do Passado | Alucinações do Passado |
| Italiano | Allucinazione perversa | Allucinazione perversa |
| Русский | Лестница Иакова | Lestnitsa Iakova |
| 中文（简体） | 异世浮生 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 異世浮生 | – |
| 한국어 | 야곱의 사다리 | Yagob-ui sadari |
| ไทย | Jacob’s Ladder | Jacob’s Ladder |
| Tiếng Việt | Jacob’s Ladder | Jacob’s Ladder |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Jacob’s Ladder | Jacob’s Ladder |
| 日本語 | ジェイコブス・ラダー | Jeikobusu Radā |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which traumatic hallucination and spiritual release collide within dying consciousness
■ Synopsis
A Vietnam War veteran experiences terrifying visions while reality, memory, guilt, and death begin to collapse into one another.
■ RECIPE Tags
#DyingConsciousness #TraumaVision #SpiritualRelease #RealityCollapse #WarAfterimage
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Trauma as fractured reality
Reason: War memory invades ordinary life until perception can no longer be trusted.
Related Film: The Machinist - Middle: Hallucination as death passage
Reason: Terrifying images function less as madness than as stages of transition.
Related Film: Carnival of Souls - Core: Letting go as salvation
Reason: The conclusion moves from resistance to release, resolving horror through acceptance of death.
Related Film: The Sixth Sense
■ Secondary Axes
- Military violation: The soldier’s body and mind become sites of institutional experimentation and hidden damage.
Related Film: The Manchurian Candidate - Afterlife threshold: The visible world becomes a liminal zone between unresolved life and final departure.
Related Film: Stay
■ Person
- Director: Adrian Lyne
- Cast: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven, Pruitt Taylor Vince
■ Structural Tags
#RealityCollapse #DeathThreshold #TraumaRevelation
■ Attribute Tags
#AmericanFilm #1990Film #PsychologicalThriller
