Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five

Billy Pilgrim lives —from time to time to time…

Rating

2.5 (1)

Release Date

3/15/1972

Runtime

100 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$3,200,000

Revenue

-

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A dreamlike, darkly comic meditation on trauma and the nature of time, where a soldier's scattered consciousness ricochets between the horrors of Dresden and an alien world. It's a war film that treats its subject matter as fundamentally absurd, both devastating and strange.

Mood

MelancholicAbsurdContemplativeUnsettling

Themes

WarMortalityMemoryComing apart

Tone

Ironic

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Stylized genreHandheld

Structure

Nonlinear

Heads up

Graphic violence

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