Slaughterhouse Five
Slaughterhouse Five (1972)
My Rating: 4.5/5
Ehh, I cannot even think of how to describe this movie. When it first came in the mail I though it was a slasher movie (title), Shane explained to me what it was about which made me totally uninterested. He mentioned time travel and space, that is a turn off for me, but it is way beyond that.
I will not try to explain because I will not do this amazing film justice. I will just past the synopsis from IMDB:
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.
