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Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder is another film that seems totally to be about avoiding death...it is the last moments of Jacob Singer's life, as he tries to come to terms with his death via this elaborate fantasy of another life (at least on one reading of the film). Dan Shaw "For beauty is the beginning of terror that we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us." Rilke's First Elegy