The 2 Jacobs Ladders...

The original story, i read in an interview with Rubin was NOT a dying dream of Jacob.

It was end times happening in a real, biblical way. HORROR. Jacob (and every one else) were watching a scourge of horror unleashed across the land-before Christs return...which also had a kind of Bhuddist philosophy going on in the background

The film was revised at the insistence of Lynne, and for now, all you can get is the screenplay in print, which has the 'Owl Creek' story line. It would have been impossible to film the original scenario because of the cost and delivery of a story that was too literally of the Bible. Plus a scene called for a celestial stairway to heaven with thousands of angels circling about.Too expensive and literal/

Yet the film tries to have it both ways

Was this all a feverish dream Jacob was having at the end of his life?

If so, how could he even have known about the BZ subplot ?-Government testing, the Chemist-all of which the dream makes rather irrelevant. That makes it seem real world.

I just loved the main theme music that starts when he goes back to bed with Sarah-then to the bathtub-and then at the very end of the credits

And RIP to Elizabeth Pena, who died in 2014.

She was very hot in the film.

here is a video i made from the master LR track on the DVD-the transition from Sarahs world to Jezzies world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMxE6dE7_0Y