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Slaughterhouse Five, 1972
English, German
USA
Profile of Slaughterhouse Five
The mood of Slaughterhouse Five is clever, contemplative, and atmospheric. The plot centers around an assassination, benign aliens, and time travel. It features dark humor and satire. Slaughterhouse Five is a drama, sci-fi, and war movie. Stylistically, it is nonlinear, is a film in a film, and is episodic. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. Slaughterhouse Five is set in Philadelphia and New England. It happens in the 1900s and in the future. It is based on a book. Slaughterhouse Five is known for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes brief nudity, profanity, and violent content.
Summary of Slaughterhouse Five
George Roy Hill's adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's whimsical antiwar black comedy--an immensely popular novel at the time of the film's release because of its implicit condemnation of the war in Vietnam--stars Michael Sacks as the placid Billy Pilgrim. He's become "unstuck in time," as the author describes him, or more prosaically, he's had a nervous breakdown as a result of a recurrence of the trauma of witnessing the horrific Allied firebombing of Dresden in 1945. The desultory narrative has Billy jumping from his war experience to his future on the planet Tralfamadore with the buxom Montana Wildhack (Valerie Perrine), then to an episode of shock therapy, then to an episode in his childhood, and then to his life as a relatively unhappy suburban optometrist. Throughout, the naive Billy remains a curious mixture of kindness and detachment, the best combination of qualities one could have, the author seems to imply, for surviving in a world of meaningless suffering. Vonnegut's novel may be unfilmable, and Hill may have been too cautious a choice as director, but he does a good job of conveying many of the qualities of the author's elusive style. Michael Sacks possesses the requisite air of innocence for his role, and Ron Liebman gives a great performance as a choleric fellow G.I.
Details
| Language: | English, German |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 15 March 1972 |
| Runtime: | 104 min |
Cast and Crew
as Billy Pilgrim
as Paul Lazzaro
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