Episode 77: Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
I revisit Adrian Lyne’s Jacob’s Ladder (1990), a film that has always stayed with me because it refuses to give easy answers.
When I first saw it, I think I experienced it mainly as a disturbing psychological horror film — unsettling imagery, strange events, and a constant feeling that something wasn’t quite right. But coming back to it years later, what stands out isn’t the horror. It’s the grief, the trauma, and the sadness underneath it all.
Tim Robbins gives one of his best performances as Jacob Singer, a Vietnam veteran struggling to understand what is real and what may be a memory, a…
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