A man tells his story of how he became unstuck in time and abducted by aliens. The story of Slaughterhouse-Five is the story of a man who, emotionally scarred by his experience in WWII, believes that he has come unstuck in time. And perhaps he has, for Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks) never knows where or when he will find himself next. Along the way, Billy survives the war (after being held prisoner in an old abandoned slaughterhouse converted to a POW camp by the Germans), finds a wife (Holly Near), and on his daughter's wedding day, gets kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamador who, though they are shaped like toilet plungers in the book, the film wisely chooses to represent only by their voices. Billy becomes an exhibit in a zoo on the planet Tralfamador, where his captors provide him with a mate, in the person of former adult movie star Montana Wildhack (Valerie Perrine). All in all, Billy floats acceptingly through his unpredictable existence as Kurt Vonnegut (author) and George Roy Hill (director) point out the absurdities of war and the aftereffects it can have on a human life. So it goes
Unclassable cause at the same time it is a comedy, a war movie, a drama and a sci-fi movie
Not bad, it has its moments, sometimes a bit too silly but some good things. For the time, I think it is quite nice, especially with the story which seemed quite difficult to adapt on screen because it goes back and forth to the past, present, future. Overall, it is not badly done, some of humour was nice: quite synical, that was nice but also some other type of silly humour was not always my cup of tea
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Subject: Re: Slaughterhouse-Five - George Roy Hill (1972) Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:08 pm
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