The film’s Spanish title, Regresiones de un hombre muerto (“Regressions of a Dead Man”), is actually more honest than the English one. Because this isn’t really a film about a magical jacket. It’s about : psychological, temporal, and spiritual. The Premise (Spoilers ahead, but the film is 20 years old) Jack Starks is shot in the head in the Gulf War, survives, and returns to Vermont with a dissociative disorder. After a freak accident, he’s declared mentally unfit and sent to a morgue-like asylum. There, Dr. Becker (Kris Kristofferson) subjects him to a cruel “treatment”: strapping him into a straightjacket and locking him inside a body drawer.
Dying over and over again to save a life you don’t yet know. Regresiones de un hombre muerto -The Jacket- 20...
Regresiones de un hombre muerto: Why The Jacket is the Most Misunderstood Time Travel Movie of the 2000s The film’s Spanish title, Regresiones de un hombre