Directed by:
George Roy HillScreenplay:
Stephen GellerCinematography:
Miroslav OndříčekCast:
Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Valerie Perrine, Perry King, Kevin Conway, Roberts Blossom, Gilmer McCormick, John Wood, Emil Iserle (more)VOD (2)
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Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks) is an ordinary World War II soldier with one major exception: he has mysteriously become unstuck in time. Billy 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. (Shock Entertainment)
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Everyone who has ever read a novel by Kurt Vonnegut knows how difficult it is to translate his literary template onto the film screen. His works are multi-layered, consisting of the thought processes of his characters, various places and times that intertwine with each other, and most importantly, they contain various dream passages and hallucinations. The attempt to make an equally successful film based on his work usually ends in a disaster, such as Breakfast of Champions. For a long time, I believed that the only film worth seeing was Mother Night, and only now do I realize that George Roy Hill's film has almost the same quality. Slaughterhouse-Five, like the novel, is absurd, tragicomic, strange, and provocative. Several scenes are among those that film fans will remember for life. The main character's encounter with victorious Soviet soldiers or the end of his best friend are certainly among them. Overall impression: 85%.
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It's a strange film, and it motivated me mostly to get the book sometime and try to understand what it was all about based on it. The transitions in the film are great, but the form somewhat overshadows the content, which I don't think was entirely the intention of the book. Definitely an interesting and specific portrayal of war that is not for everyone.
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