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May 29, 2020 · The House That Jack Built follows the two men on a Dante's Inferno -style trip, with the last scene seeing Verge lead Jack to a broken bridge over the center of Hell itself. Verge led Jack deeper into Hell than the circle he was supposed to end up at. Jack spots a stairway across the bridge that Verge says leads to Heaven, so he decides to ...
- The House That Jack Built: Plot Synopsis
- Murder Five: Multi Head-Shot
- The House That Jack Built: Ending Explained
- The House That Jack Built: An Alternate Theory
While it is disclosed only in the end, Jack is narrating his five random murders to someone by the name Verge, who we’ll talk about later. Let’s quickly go over the killings. Oh, it would be a good time as ever to know that Jack owns a walk-in freezer which has one compartment frozen shut. Oh and that Jack has OCD. Oh and that he’s been trying to b...
Okay, so, this one is not a murder. It’s only an attempt. Jack has selected a bunch of random guys and aligned them to do an experiment. He wants to use a full metal jacket to see if he can kill all of them with one shot. Jack has the wrong bullet and goes to get that changed. In that process, Jack kills S.P, a person known to him, who believes he ...
Who is Verge? What was The House That Jack Built about?
So let’s get the obvious out of the way – Verge is short for Publius Vergilius Maro, a.k.a Vergil, the poet who takes Dante through Hell. Right, so, we have a Dante’s Inferno allusion where a Verge is taking Jack through hell. But why? Why would Jack be in hell if he never died? This is where I prefer to think that Jack did die. We stopped going through the plot soon as the cop fired into the freezer.
Significance of that locked room inside the freezer
I believe that the room that is frozen shut is metaphorical in nature. That it is a part of Jack’s mind that is locked away. Inside this portion of his mind resides his conscience. He sees his conscience in the form of Verge. So why is Jack suddenly able to access this room (part of his mind) and able to talk to his conscience? Well, I’m going to go on a limb and say that shot the cop fired… hit Jack. And as Jack begins dying, he is able to access the area of the locked up mind and his consci...
Jack’s Confession
Jack is confessing his murders to his conscience (the confession conversation we have heard throughout the film). While his conscience, Verge, objects to what Jack is saying “Stop it…you Antichrist! I don’t recall ever having escorted a so thoroughly depraved person as you”, Jack seems to consider death to be artistic (and hence the comparison to the pianist). Jack’s conscience metaphorically takes him through the circles of hell. Through this journey, Jack witnesses a sight of a meadow with...
There is one final thought, and it is along the lines of American Psycho. No matter the crime, nobody seems to notice Jack going about doing it. Be it dragging bodies, carrying them around, or confessing. The circumstances always favour Jack allowing him to get away, no matter how sloppy he gets. This could point to a theory that he’s actually not ...
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Here's a more quick interpretation to what I think the ending to The House That Jack Built meant. I apologize for the lack of visual references due to the fa...
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Nov 11, 2023 · The House That Jack Built is a psychological horror film directed by Lars von Trier. The movie follows the life of Jack, a highly intelligent and meticulous serial killer, as he reflects on his past murders and engages in a conversation with an unseen character named Verge. The film is divided into five “incidents,” each representing a ...
Feb 6, 2024 · Released in 2018, “The House That Jack Built” is a psychological horror film directed by Lars von Trier. The movie follows the life of Jack, a highly intelligent serial killer, as he reflects upon his past murders and engages in a conversation with an unseen interlocutor named Verge. The film’s ending is a thought-provoking and unsettling ...
