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Slaughterhouse-Five
Drama, Science Fiction, War
Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to formally unconventional stories that transform wartime trauma into an absurd, mournful meditation on memory and helplessness.
- Tone
- surreal, bleak, darkly comic
- Payoff
- reflection, unease
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- non-linear
- Themes
- war trauma, time and memory, fatalism, marriage, human absurdity
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century wartime and postwar, civilian cities, prisoner-of-war camps, suburban life, distant alien world
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