The Jacket

WOW. This was a *great* movie.

What did Jackie mean at the end, after the screen fades to white, when she says "How much time do we have left?"

Assuming Jack is starting a new future with her, having changed the past, she wouldn't be immediately aware of the limited amount of time he can spend in the future. Futhermore, being dead in the past, I thought it was implied he will continue his new life with her in the future and would be there indefinitely.

Is the guy who shot the cop holding Jack's dog tags in the bar during the scene where Jack narrates the letter's contents? I realize he gave them to Jackie prior, but that's what it looks like.

Is the fat gay Jack harasses in the morgue in the future the bald headed orderly that assists the female nurse to strap him in, or is an older version of the crazy guy who's wife left him, who befriends Jack early on?

I didn't think it was completely explained, but what is Dr. Becker trying to do to the patients he puts in the morgue drawers? He comments about them already being broken, so we know he's not trying to fix them. Jackie mentions that he resumed controversial mind altering experiments from the 70's. But to what end were these experiments done in 1993? It's mentioned the Becker wants to make a 'womb' for the patients, but it never says if that's supposed to heal them or not.

Because Becker refers to the patients as criminals in the future, I can only guess he's using them for his own purposes. But those aren't made clear, I think.

Jack mentions the other patients haunt Becker in the future, yet he's the only one that's seems to have any contact with him. What's the deal there?

the drawer and jacket where used to simulate sensory deprevation (but hollywoodized), and somehow gave the patients a link to the future (through their physcosis?). Becker was just an asshole, he wanted to punish the criminals (by forcing them into partial sensory deprevation while on drugs that kept them awake). The bald fat guy in the future was the bald orderly from the past.

I had thought that the post-ending ending (with him seeing the effects of his work) was a vision of "heaven" (his post-mortem reward for good behavior) / tacked on to make the movie more accestable in theatres (people don't like movies with unhappy endings). The post-enidng ending was actually the only thing i didn't like about the movie.