Under Jakob's Ladder is, on one level, a movie about loss. It's about the loss of freedom for the protagonist Jakob and his fellow prisoners... The loss of trust where everyone begins to suspect everyone else... The loss felt by a granddaughter as her grandfather is torn from her.
This movie is based on real-life events that happened in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Real-life losses that were felt by real-life people.
But this movie isn't just about a certain group of people in a certain historical time. You probably never spent time prison because your neighbor was looking for another bottle of vodka.
But you can perhaps identify with loss on some level.
For Jakob and his fellow prisoners, they looked for and found a way to rise above the loss felt in their lives. Something (we hope) is a major theme that plays out in the movie.
(This blog post is dedicated to the people who deal with loss everyday.)
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