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Slaughterhouse-Five

(1972)

''Slaughterhouse-Five'' is one of the best movies about the veteran experience

In this adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's semi-autobiographical sci-fi novel, World War II vet Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks, shown, center) becomes ''unstuck'' in time, shifting randomly and helplessly between his dull present-day existence as a suburban optometrist, his future as a zoo exhibit on the planet Tralfamadore, and his past as a POW who managed to survive the horrific Allied firebombing of Dresden (as did Vonnegut). The movie's surreal, fantastic elements aside, Slaughterhouse-Five does approximate the book's absurdist, wistful, satirical tone, and it makes vividly real the veteran's sense that he is always about to relive the most devastating moments of his life.

Originally posted May 30, 2008
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