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Slaughterhouse-Five — Billy Pilgrim lives —from time to time to time

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Slaughterhouse-Five

1972 6.5 4.9K R views saved
Slaughterhouse-Five

Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

Countries: US
Languages: English, German, Russian
Content Rating: R
Runtime: 1hrs 40min
Status: Released
Release date: 1972-03-15
Release format: Streaming — Oct 26, 1972
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VWFringe the Pervy Sage from TVMuse
@vwfringe 10 months ago

Graphic novel 2020
https://readcomicsonline.ru/comic/slaughterhouse-five-2020/1

The book, the graphic novel (and supposedly the movie) are all ==about the Dresden Bombing== (which the author witnessed as an American POW). It is an anti-war book with comic relief, and science fiction to provide an outside perspective. "Billy Pilgrim's come unstuck in time." Please understand the Tralfamadorians had nothing to do with his becoming unstuck in time; they were just able to help explain what was happening to him (and he lived in their zoo on their planet with a sex worker who bore his fourth child). Yes, it's rediculous, but he wanted to get us to listen.

The second name of the story is, "The Children's Crusade," (referencing the Dresden atrocity).

He wanted us All to know how horrible, and meaningless, war is.

==He told his children they should never participate in any massacres.==

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VWFringe the Pervy Sage from TVMuse
@vwfringe 10 months ago

Graphic novel 2020
https://readcomicsonline.ru/comic/slaughterhouse-five-2020/1

The book, the graphic novel (and supposedly the movie) are all ==about the Dresden Bombing== (which the author witnessed as an American POW). It is an anti-war book with comic relief, and science fiction to provide an outside perspective. "Billy Pilgrim's come unstuck in time." Please understand the Tralfamadorians had nothing to do with his becoming unstuck in time; they were just able to help explain what was happening to him (and he lived in their zoo on their planet with a sex worker who bore his fourth child). Yes, it's rediculous, but he wanted to get us to listen.

The second name of the story is, "The Children's Crusade," (referencing the Dresden atrocity).

He wanted us All to know how horrible, and meaningless, war is.

==He told his children they should never participate in any massacres.==

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@hriday 2 years ago

I never read the book so cant compare, but the movie is a masterpiece in editing.

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@drqshadow 5 years ago

An extremely loyal interpretation of the classic Vonnegut novel, this skirts the issue of explaining its complicated premise by way of a quick typewriter scene. Seeing it on-screen somehow makes everything seem less surreal than it was in print, even when the scenery randomly shifts from a Nazi POW camp to a sharp, sparsely-decorated single room apartment on the surface of an alien world.

Really just a handful of loosely-related tales from the protagonist's life, it's four distinct scenes tied together by jarring moments of deja vĂș and a strange, out-of-step sense of humor. A curious adventure, if only due to the sheer absurdity of its most profound scenes, it fails to stand out in any other meaningful ways. It's more straightforward and matter-of-fact than the book, and lacks many of the wry grins and quirks that made the original work stand apart. What works in print doesn't always translate so literally to the screen.

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