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Originally Posted by Ninth
The story of Jacket is not really what's interesting in this movie. It's more the atmosphere that's compelling, and the way the mystery unfolds itself (the narration).
Plus, Snarky mentioned an happy ending... Didn't seem very happy to me. 
Spoiler:The guy dies. The girl gets a better life.
I guess that's not exactly unhappy, but...  |
Well, the atmosphere is subjective, of course. I found the whole asylum setting very tired (sub-
12 Monkeys), and completely lacking in tension.
As for the ending, that's at least debatable:
Spoiler:I took it as that he managed to travel into the future for good (which is why he was so keen to be put into the jacket as he was dying), and in that sense survived his own death. I agree that it's ambiguous, barely, but even if he's really dead I think it's a pretty happy ending. And of course, the hero who accepts his predestined death to improve the lives of others is a staple of the time-traveling genre.
