Billie survives the 1945 firebombing of Dresden, then lives simultaneously in his past, present and future as a young American POW, a resident in a zoo on another planet, and as a middle-aged optometrist in New York State.
by William Thomas |
Published on
Release Date:
01 Jan 1972
Running Time:
104 minutes
Certificate:
15
Original Title:
Slaughterhouse Five
Considering that Kurt Vonnegut's demanding flights of fantasy are virtually unfilmable no bad thing this game effort to visualise his early landmark novel is creditable and interesting if very uneven.
Forget seeing it to get the gist of the book; anyone unfamiliar with the original is likely to emerge utterly baffled by this Everyman -unstuck-in-time-and-space fable which is part-sci fi, part-contemporary American angst and part-memoir of KV's own WWII nightmare as a POW in bombed Dresden.
Weird, but kind of cool
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