Slaughterhouse-Five
Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.
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"After becoming enraptured with Vonnegut's strange and subversive Slaughterhouse-Five far too late in life I discovered that not only had a film been made, but had been spoken about gushingly by the great author himself so I endeavored to see it. It's a strange affair really - incredibly close to the narrative of the book but eschewing any and all elements of the witty commentary so it comes across as a kaleidoscope of images with very little dialogue even. If you'd never read the source I can't imagine how you begin to make sense of it. The book is so woven into Vonnegut&ap..."
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Although Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s renowned refrain, "And so it goes", appears over 100 times in the novel, it it is not uttered even once in this film.
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Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.