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コントリビュータ ロン・リーブマン, ジョージ・ロイ・ヒル, ヴァレリー・ペリン, マイケル・サックス, ユージン・ロッシュ, シャロン・ガンス
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あの爆撃が私から離れない!!自由に生きる時と空間を求めてさすらうタイム・マシン放浪者……傑作SF小説を鬼才ジョージ・ロイ・ヒル監督が完全映画化!ファン待望の初DVD化!貴重なTV放送時の吹替音声収録!

時空旅行を筋書きの軸としながら、作者本人が体験した第二次世界大戦のドレスデン爆撃の様子を盛り込んだ、1969年発表のカート・ヴォネガットの有名SF小説の映画化作品。カンヌ映画祭での受賞のほか、SFの世界で最も古く、最も権威あるヒューゴー賞、さらにジャンル映画の祭典、サターン賞も受賞している。監督は「明日に向って撃て!」(69)、「スティング」(73)、「ガープの世界」(82)など名作、大ヒット作を手掛けた巨匠ジョージ・ロイ・ヒル、さらに音楽をゴルトベルク変奏曲で知られる作曲家グレン・グールドが担当、原作者に「原作よりよくできている」と言わしめたSFの傑作。日本でも早川書房から原作翻訳本が発売されており、カルト的人気を集めている。

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  • アスペクト比 ‏ : ‎ 1.78:1
  • メーカーにより製造中止になりました ‏ : ‎ いいえ
  • 言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語, 日本語
  • 梱包サイズ ‏ : ‎ 19 x 13.6 x 1.4 cm; 99.79 g
  • EAN ‏ : ‎ 4988003994228
  • 監督 ‏ : ‎ ジョージ・ロイ・ヒル
  • メディア形式 ‏ : ‎ ドルビー, 字幕付き, ワイドスクリーン, 色, 吹き替え
  • 時間 ‏ : ‎ 1 時間 39 分
  • 発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2009/5/13
  • 出演 ‏ : ‎ マイケル・サックス, ユージン・ロッシュ, ロン・リーブマン, シャロン・ガンス, ヴァレリー・ペリン
  • 字幕: ‏ : ‎ 日本語
  • 言語 ‏ : ‎ 日本語 (Mono), 英語 (Mono)
  • 販売元 ‏ : ‎ キングレコード
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001P7BJFM
  • ディスク枚数 ‏ : ‎ 1
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「ビリーは、けいれん的時間旅行者である。つぎの行先をみずからコントロールする力はない。したがって旅は必ずしも楽しいものではない」(早川文庫SF302 『スローターハウス5 カート・ヴォネガット・ジュニア 伊藤典夫=訳』P.35)。原作には著者による副題がついています。「子供十字軍 死との義務的ダンス」。

ドレスデン無差別爆撃を中心素材にして、現在・過去・未来を行きつ戻りつするビリー・ピルグリム(マイケル・サックス。ピルグリムは「巡礼」ですね)の眺める自身の人生と世界。著者のヴォネガットは本作を「戦争小説」といっています。一方でトラルファマドール星での、アメリカのグラマー女優モンタナ(ヴァレリー・ペリン)との下りは本作の重要なツイストとなっており、奇妙なSFテイスト、浮遊感漂う軽さもあわせもっています(異星人が「結合」に興味津々なのは笑えます「Are you making love?」)。ジョージ・ロイ・ヒルは『スティング』の前にこんなユニークな映画を撮っていたのですね。

説明することは難しい不思議な作品です。それぞれのシークエンス内は普通なのですが、ビリーが別の時、別の地へ突然に移動します(テレポーテイションやタイムスリップとは違います)。さらに、別ヴァージョンの先行レビュアーの、のじりさまがご指摘のように
エンディングから冒頭へ繋いで観るとビリーの人生が永遠であるかのようです。メビウスの輪みたいですね。時間から解き放たれるということは、考えてみれば永遠を生きるということなのかも知れません。しかし不死ではありません。誕生から死を何度もランダムにワープするのですから・・。

なぜ、けいれん的時間旅行をするのか。星人のせいか飛行機事故の影響か、ビリーの幻覚か・・。映画は理由を説明しません。原作を昔に読んでいたので、ときに難解と評される本作、初鑑賞時も面食らうことはなかったです。冒頭で自身が時間旅行者だということはちゃんと述べられています。いったん過ぎ去った時間は二度と戻って来ないという現実認識は錯覚にすぎない、云々という記述が原作にあります(P.39)。

映像としてとりたててどうということはないのですが(トラルファマドール星の描写は新鮮でした)時間移動のつなぎ目の編集に絶妙の工夫をこらしていて唸らされました。また、対独戦線の雪の白が印象的です。そこに流れるバッハ。グレン・グールドの演奏です。グールドによるバッハは全編に使われていて、本作の空気を物悲しく支配しています。ここでの演奏はCD, Glenn Gould at the cinemaで聴くことができます。本映画のための選曲、それともオリジナル「演奏」なのでしょうか。

映像は多くの老いと死にあふれています。人だけでなく犬(愛犬スポット)もそうです。同監督の後年の佳作『ガープの世界』を思い出させます。死と隣り合わせの人生。いや、死を内包しているといったほうがよいでしょうか。時間旅行を繰り返すビリーは自身の死をも何度も体験している、と語ります。つらいことを何度も新鮮に追体験するのでしょうか。それともその度に薄れていくのでしょうか。不幸も重力から解き放たれてその重みを失うのでしょうか。そうであれば原作で繰り返し使われる言葉、「そういうものだ」(So it goes)という境地に達するのもうなずける気がします。

1945年2月13日。ドレスデン爆撃・・。直截な爆撃シーンはありませんが、防空壕の扉を開けると外はすでに・・というところは登場人物ともども愕然とします。原作の訳者あとがきによると、爆撃は1945年2月13日深夜から14日の朝にかけて英米軍により行われたということです。高性能爆薬と焼夷弾の爆撃と掃射です。死者は3万5千から20万の間、現在(あとがき1978年当時)では控えめにいって13万5千が公式な数字らしいです。連合国側が1963年までこの爆撃をひたかくしにしていたときき、驚きです。都市が一夜にして廃墟と化したのです。ヴォネガット自身が体験したそうです。

本作はなぜか私の中では映画『キャッチ=22』とペアになっています。時制を行き来する構成と、戦争の不条理を扱っているせいかも知れません。多くの死が溢れているせいかも知れません。一方がお好きな方には他方も是非楽しんでいただいたいと思います。また、原作もエヴァーグリーンです。小説『タイタンの妖女』『母なる夜』とともに大いにお薦めです。

人生という「旅は必ずしも楽しいものではない」。
こんにちは、さようなら。そういうものだ。Hello, farewell. So it goes.

Slaughterhouse-five 1972 U.S. Universal Pictures
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監督はジョージ・ロイ・ヒル。
大ヒットした「明日に向かって撃て!」と「スティング」の間に製作されたのが本作です。
カート・ヴォネガット(当時はカート・ヴォネガット・ジュニア名義)の原作小説に基づいたものとは言え、1972年のアメリカ映画としては前例がないと思える程、時間と空間を自由自在に行き来しながらストーリーが進行します。
同監督の「ガープの世界」(1982年、こちらはジョン・アービング原作)同様、スラップスティックの形を取りながら悲劇、残酷譚が描かれていることも含めて、当時としては実験的とも感じられる構成だと思います。
とは言え、場面転換の前後で意味付けはきちんと成されており、高い完成度であることは間違いありません。

70年代後半に名画座(!)で鑑賞しましたが、直接的な説明表現を廃し、映像の積み重ねによって全体像を浮かび上がらせる演出ゆえに、初見では本作の世界観を自分の中で整理出来ませんでした。
当時はレンタルや家庭用のビデオも普及しておらず、映画館以外ではTV放映(東京12チャンネルで時々やってましたね)を観るか小説を読むしか追体験の方法は無かったので、ハヤカワSF文庫の助けなしには理解不能だったかもしれません。
この物語は、心のタイムトラベルの形を取りながら、白日夢、妄想、あるいは人生の走馬灯の様にも解釈出来ます。
そのいずれかかもしれず、あるいはそのいずれでもないのかもしれない。
重層的なその世界観が、混沌とした私たちの現実と重なると思え、素晴らしい。

グレン・グールドによるピアノ曲が、メイン・テーマとしてフィーチャリングされているのも印象的です。
(因みに「羊たちの沈黙」で流れるゴルトベルグ変奏曲も長らくグレン・グールドの演奏だと思い込んでいたのですが、実はジェリー・ジマーマンという方だそうです)
冒頭でバッハのピアノ協奏曲第5番が流れる中、雪原を独り彷徨う主人公の姿は、心の内面を掘り下げていく映画だということが観る側に伝わってくる演出だと感じました。(無論、当時は彼の名前も曲名も知りませんでしたが)
戦場に迷い込み途方に暮れる彼に、やはり12チャンネルで午後によく放映されていた映画「まぼろしの市街戦」(1966年、フランス)を重ねて観ていたのかもしれません。

マザコンで自閉症気味、常に薄笑いを浮かべる主人公ビリーは、私たちが抱く勇敢な兵士像とは対局の存在です。
また、彼が遭遇する「事故」の場面に登場する仮面の男たちからは、「イナゴの日」(1975年、アメリカ)のクライマックスを想起する不気味さ、不条理さが伝わってきました。
その意味で、本作は従来の価値観を否定し映像の新たな可能性を切り開いた一連のアメリカン・ニューシネマにおける隠れた名作といえるのかもしれません。

「そろそろ、お別れの時間が来た様です。こんにちは。そして、さようなら」
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飯塚昭三さん、大木民夫さん、千葉耕市さんらによる豪華な吹替えも素晴らしい。
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明日に向かって撃て1969
スティング1973
ガープの世界1982

の名匠ジョージロイヒル監督による1972年作品。

村上春樹大明神が学生時代に見て打ちのめされた

と どこかに書いてはったので購入した。

DVD が高すぎるのでVHS で購入した。

まず音楽は文句なくすばらしい。

現在と過去と妄想がヒンパンに入れ替わる構造も、

まあついていける。

問題はだな、、、、特になし。

ドレスデンの美しい風景をたっぷり見せた後に

崩壊したドレスデンを見せるので、

衝撃はヒトシオである。

名作1972といえる。

先輩兵士との友情物語が心地よかった。

、、、、、、、、、、、、

追記

「コメディーと並置しないと本物の暴力は描けない」

って、この映画のことだったんだなあ
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Always watched this when it was on late night TV growing up.Classic.Great to have it on bluray.Looks great.
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Una adaptación muy buena de la novela de Kurt Vonnegut. En cuanto al DVD, la imagen es muy buena (claro que no se compara al HD actual) y viene subtitulada al español, así que no hay pretexto para saltarse está película.
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The late, great Ron Leibman (Auto Focus, Where's Poppa) passed away on the date of this release. His performance here is unparalleled. He will be missed. So it goes...

One quibble: too bad Arrow couldn't include the soundtrack CD, by the great (and Hannibal Lector's favorite) Glenn Gould - complete with a facsimile of the original LP art. Would've been cool! Oh, well, wishful thinking. So it goes. However, it's on Prime Music - an amazing work of art. Stream or download here: ASIN# B012JM95RA.

This realization of this glimpse into the mind's eye of a man unstuck in time is brilliant to behold. Yes, the book is a brilliant work in its own right, and open to interpretation, as a truly complex work must be. The movie is not the book. It is Hill's interpretation of the book, and a brilliant and viable one it is. Indeed, Kurt Vonnegut was very pleased with it - not very common position for an author in regards to movie adaptations.

Hill won the best Director Oscar the next year with "The Sting". He later filmed the similarly "unfilmable" World According To Garp and also did a brilliant job with it, partially by letting go of John Irving's more depressing side. Other notable credits include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Slapshot.

Michael Sacks, in his first movie, and only starring role at the tender age of 24, is completely convincing and natural. He is equally effective, compelling, and believable at the six distinct stages of Pilgrim's life memorialized herein. If he weren't up to the six-in-one role, the film wouldn't work, but he is, and it does. (Sacks would later appear in Steven Spielberg's theatrical debut, The Sugarland Express and Wes Craven's best film, Split Image - criminally unreleased to DVD or bluray - before retiring from acting and becoming a Wall Street Master of the Universe. So it goes.)

Famed editor, Dede Allen (Dog Day Afternoon, Bonnie and Clyde and dozens of other classics) does an amazing job - despite the jumping around in time and place (and space), the viewer is never confused. Indeed, this film is way ahead of its time: it would be decades before Inception (the movie), Tarantino and the ilk. What is a cliché now (the gratuitous and pretentious Looper, for example) must have been off-putting to a 70s audience.

70s sex kitten, Valerie Perrine (Honey Bruce in Bob Fosses's biopic, Lenny, and Lex Luther's lady friend in Superman) is great as Montana Wildhack. The other characters are all played for maximum irony and effect, and the cast delivers beautifully, without exception. Eugene Roche is the epitome of kindness as "Poor Edgar Derby" (whose death is still one of the most shocking scenes in filmdom - even if you've read/watched novel/film 127 times) the yin, to Ron (The Hot Rock) Liebman's yang, a twisted ball of anger named Paul Lazaro. John Dehner is brilliant as a war-hawk professor upset at the Vietnam protesters. His character would be as appropriate amidst today's global conflagration as it was in 1966 - the year of the books publication. Roberts Blossom (Deranged, Close Encounters of the First Kind), Lucille Benson, Kevin Conway, Sorrell Booke, Holly Near, Richard Schaal, and in another debut, Perry King (Andy Warhol's Bad, The Choirboys) are the more familiar names in a uniformly excellent cast, including the German/ Czeck actors. (Filmed in Prague - an excellent stand in for bombed-out Germany.)

The cinematography by Miroslav Miroslav Ondricik is spectacular: he shot many films for the late Milos Foreman (Amadeus, Ragtime, Cuckoo's Nest) and Lindsay Anderson (O Lucky Man! and If...) as well as Mike Nichols and many more. His vision of dreary Minnesota (the stateside filming location of Vonnegut's fictional Ilium, NY, first mentioned in Vonnegut's first novel, 1952s Player Piano) recalls/predates Fargo - the movie and TV series. He makes Prague glimmer, and his version of "outer space" is truly visionary.

The musical score (The aforementioned Glenn Gould) is also perfect, both in tone and substance. Beautiful, really. Vonnegut is a master of superimposing satire over irony over futility. The movie does a marvelous job of blending these contrasts and making its audience feel enriched. The music underscores all of these contrasts. The audio on this disc is excellent.

Searching desperately for something to say to show that the movie cannot be 100% perfect, the only thing I can come up with is that the pacing of the movie drags slightly when the soldiers leave the first camp for Dresden until their new Kommandant gives his "welcoming" speech. It might have played better with about three minutes cut from that sequence...but, hey, so it goes.

The specs and extras:

The video is 1.85:1 anamorphic. The 1080p resolution brings out both the life in the POW camp and on the surface of Tralfamadore. The audio is Original lossless mono audio which still makes Glenn Gould’s piano playing sound so sharp. The movie is (optional) subtitled in English.

Audio Commentary by author and critic Troy Howarth which is interesting since I’m used to him mainly speaking about Giallo films. He is well informed about how the movie came about and the talent on the screen.

Video appreciation with author and critic (also known for horror and exploitation films) Kim Newman (21:05) has him talk about the book, film and George Roy Hill. He goes into how Hill gets into the time shifting.

Pilgrim’s Progress: Playing Slaughterhouse-Five (14:07) is a new video interview with actor Perry King. He talks about going to Yale for acting school. He got into Yale even telling them he was only going there to be in Yale. While he was in school, they did a preview of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with Robert Redford, Paul Newman and George Roy Hill. Three years later, he’s auditioning for George Roy Hill to play Billy Pilgrim’s son. John Houseman as his mentor at Julliard. He talks about the time Hill didn’t even let him speak during a scene because he knew a reaction shot covered everything that he would have said. He also identifies the voice on Tralfamadore - a nifty piece of trivia!

Only on Earth: Presenting Slaughterhouse-Five (8:41) interviews Rocky Lang, son of executive producer Jennings Lang, about the film’s distribution. Jennings worked his way up from publicity to starting Universal’s TV department to producing films. Slaughterhouse-Five was his favorite film to produce. He says Universal bungled the release so that even though it won a major prize at Cannes, the studio didn’t get behind it for the Oscars. His father went on to make the blockbuster disaster epic Earthquake and Clint Eastwood's directorial debut, Play Misty For Me.

Unstuck in Time: Documenting Slaughterhouse-Five (14:38) meets up with behind-the-scenes filmmaker/producer Robert Crawford, Jr. He had acted in a TV movie with George Roy Hill and turned into be a fly on the wall for the production of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The piece won an Emmy and he brought back Crawford to make another one. George liked the book, but had no idea how to make it a film. So they brought him the screenplay by Stephen Geller and he saw how it could be done. There are clips from the behind the scenes footage.

Eternally Connected: Composing Slaughterhouse-Five (11:36) interviews film music historian Daniel Schweiger. He speaks of the musical selections and Glenn Gould’s work used in the film.

All of the "presenters" in the above extras very insightful, a pleasure to watch.

Theatrical trailer (4:32) really gives you a sense of the film.
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The late, great Ron Leibman (Auto Focus, Where's Poppa) passed away on the date of this release. His performance here is unparalleled. He will be missed. So it goes...

One quibble: too bad Arrow couldn't include the soundtrack CD, by the great (and Hannibal Lector's favorite) Glenn Gould - complete with a facsimile of the original LP art. Would've been cool! Oh, well, wishful thinking. So it goes. However, it's on Prime Music - an amazing work of art. Stream or download here: ASIN# B012JM95RA.

This realization of this glimpse into the mind's eye of a man unstuck in time is brilliant to behold. Yes, the book is a brilliant work in its own right, and open to interpretation, as a truly complex work must be. The movie is not the book. It is Hill's interpretation of the book, and a brilliant and viable one it is. Indeed, Kurt Vonnegut was very pleased with it - not very common position for an author in regards to movie adaptations.

Hill won the best Director Oscar the next year with "The Sting". He later filmed the similarly "unfilmable" World According To Garp and also did a brilliant job with it, partially by letting go of John Irving's more depressing side. Other notable credits include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Slapshot.

Michael Sacks, in his first movie, and only starring role at the tender age of 24, is completely convincing and natural. He is equally effective, compelling, and believable at the six distinct stages of Pilgrim's life memorialized herein. If he weren't up to the six-in-one role, the film wouldn't work, but he is, and it does. (Sacks would later appear in Steven Spielberg's theatrical debut, The Sugarland Express and Wes Craven's best film, Split Image - criminally unreleased to DVD or bluray - before retiring from acting and becoming a Wall Street Master of the Universe. So it goes.)

Famed editor, Dede Allen (Dog Day Afternoon, Bonnie and Clyde and dozens of other classics) does an amazing job - despite the jumping around in time and place (and space), the viewer is never confused. Indeed, this film is way ahead of its time: it would be decades before Inception (the movie), Tarantino and the ilk. What is a cliché now (the gratuitous and pretentious Looper, for example) must have been off-putting to a 70s audience.

70s sex kitten, Valerie Perrine (Honey Bruce in Bob Fosses's biopic, Lenny, and Lex Luther's lady friend in Superman) is great as Montana Wildhack. The other characters are all played for maximum irony and effect, and the cast delivers beautifully, without exception. Eugene Roche is the epitome of kindness as "Poor Edgar Derby" (whose death is still one of the most shocking scenes in filmdom - even if you've read/watched novel/film 127 times) the yin, to Ron (The Hot Rock) Liebman's yang, a twisted ball of anger named Paul Lazaro. John Dehner is brilliant as a war-hawk professor upset at the Vietnam protesters. His character would be as appropriate amidst today's global conflagration as it was in 1966 - the year of the books publication. Roberts Blossom (Deranged, Close Encounters of the First Kind), Lucille Benson, Kevin Conway, Sorrell Booke, Holly Near, Richard Schaal, and in another debut, Perry King (Andy Warhol's Bad, The Choirboys) are the more familiar names in a uniformly excellent cast, including the German/ Czeck actors. (Filmed in Prague - an excellent stand in for bombed-out Germany.)

The cinematography by Miroslav Miroslav Ondricik is spectacular: he shot many films for the late Milos Foreman (Amadeus, Ragtime, Cuckoo's Nest) and Lindsay Anderson (O Lucky Man! and If...) as well as Mike Nichols and many more. His vision of dreary Minnesota (the stateside filming location of Vonnegut's fictional Ilium, NY, first mentioned in Vonnegut's first novel, 1952s Player Piano) recalls/predates Fargo - the movie and TV series. He makes Prague glimmer, and his version of "outer space" is truly visionary.

The musical score (The aforementioned Glenn Gould) is also perfect, both in tone and substance. Beautiful, really. Vonnegut is a master of superimposing satire over irony over futility. The movie does a marvelous job of blending these contrasts and making its audience feel enriched. The music underscores all of these contrasts. The audio on this disc is excellent.

Searching desperately for something to say to show that the movie cannot be 100% perfect, the only thing I can come up with is that the pacing of the movie drags slightly when the soldiers leave the first camp for Dresden until their new Kommandant gives his "welcoming" speech. It might have played better with about three minutes cut from that sequence...but, hey, so it goes.

The specs and extras:

The video is 1.85:1 anamorphic. The 1080p resolution brings out both the life in the POW camp and on the surface of Tralfamadore. The audio is Original lossless mono audio which still makes Glenn Gould’s piano playing sound so sharp. The movie is (optional) subtitled in English.

Audio Commentary by author and critic Troy Howarth which is interesting since I’m used to him mainly speaking about Giallo films. He is well informed about how the movie came about and the talent on the screen.

Video appreciation with author and critic (also known for horror and exploitation films) Kim Newman (21:05) has him talk about the book, film and George Roy Hill. He goes into how Hill gets into the time shifting.

Pilgrim’s Progress: Playing Slaughterhouse-Five (14:07) is a new video interview with actor Perry King. He talks about going to Yale for acting school. He got into Yale even telling them he was only going there to be in Yale. While he was in school, they did a preview of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with Robert Redford, Paul Newman and George Roy Hill. Three years later, he’s auditioning for George Roy Hill to play Billy Pilgrim’s son. John Houseman as his mentor at Julliard. He talks about the time Hill didn’t even let him speak during a scene because he knew a reaction shot covered everything that he would have said. He also identifies the voice on Tralfamadore - a nifty piece of trivia!

Only on Earth: Presenting Slaughterhouse-Five (8:41) interviews Rocky Lang, son of executive producer Jennings Lang, about the film’s distribution. Jennings worked his way up from publicity to starting Universal’s TV department to producing films. Slaughterhouse-Five was his favorite film to produce. He says Universal bungled the release so that even though it won a major prize at Cannes, the studio didn’t get behind it for the Oscars. His father went on to make the blockbuster disaster epic Earthquake and Clint Eastwood's directorial debut, Play Misty For Me.

Unstuck in Time: Documenting Slaughterhouse-Five (14:38) meets up with behind-the-scenes filmmaker/producer Robert Crawford, Jr. He had acted in a TV movie with George Roy Hill and turned into be a fly on the wall for the production of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The piece won an Emmy and he brought back Crawford to make another one. George liked the book, but had no idea how to make it a film. So they brought him the screenplay by Stephen Geller and he saw how it could be done. There are clips from the behind the scenes footage.

Eternally Connected: Composing Slaughterhouse-Five (11:36) interviews film music historian Daniel Schweiger. He speaks of the musical selections and Glenn Gould’s work used in the film.

All of the "presenters" in the above extras very insightful, a pleasure to watch.

Theatrical trailer (4:32) really gives you a sense of the film.
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J. L. Sievert
5つ星のうち5.0 Time-tripping survivor
2016年11月27日に英国でレビュー済み
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Slaughterhouse Five is a lament for the human condition. Arguments for and against the destruction of Dresden are moot. Right and wrong are nullified by the destruction itself, engulfed by the fact of the firestorm. The city reduced to rubble, dust, debris and ash in a matter of hours, here one moment, gone the next, remains the salient truth. Dresden is thus emblematic — like Hiroshima and Nagasaki — of what man can do if he puts his mind to it.

Eight hundred Allied bombers approached the city on the night of 13 February 1945. The first wave flattened the city, the second — dropping napalm-like incendiary bombs — torched what remained. Thousands burned to death, though most suffocated, oxygen sucked from the air and their lungs by the flames.

Vonnegut survived in his air lock, a meat locker buried two stories underground, Schlachthof-fünf by name, or Slaughterhouse five. A fluke, naturally, that he was there, a contingency that he and his lot survived the firestorm when thousands of Germans did not. The moment of panic-fear wiped away all human distinctions when the air-raid sirens sounded, the instinct to survive superseding all else, thus saving him and his comrades.

Counterpoint concerning the city is beautifully established in the film. It is first viewed in silhouette along the banks of the Elbe, its gables, turrets and towers dark against a white sky just after dawn. It’s viewed from the barred windows of a cattle car that carries the prisoners into the city. In the novel Vonnegut writes that “the skyline was intricate and voluptuous, enchanted and absurd. It looked like a Sunday school picture of Heaven to Billy Pilgrim [Everyman protagonist in the story].”

From the central station the prisoners are marched through the city to their detention camps. Wide eyes, open faces. Classical music, no dialogue as the film follows them. All this beauty, this Baroque splendour, after what they have seen in this awful war: blood, mud, pain and death. The streets are cobblestone, the buildings ornate. The local people, mostly civilians, watch them on parade, filthy and bedraggled. These locals just look, saying nothing. So this is what we have been fighting? Yes, Dresden was off the beaten track, rather isolated by the war. Thus it was hardly protected, all the big guns elsewhere.

Dresden, Florence of the Elbe, famous for its Meissen porcelain miniatures and Renaissance architecture. Loved throughout Germany and Europe. Destroy this? Why? Who would think to? And yet… There is always ‘and yet’ in this life.

It is early February 1945. That is when the prisoners arrive. Nobody in Dresden knows it now but in less than two weeks the city, founded in the 12th century, will be gone.

How can Vonnegut (and George Roy Hill, director of the film) tell such a story? How does art compete with napalm? Wisely, they acknowledge it cannot. They let the destruction speak for itself.

As for us, humanity, victims of ourselves and our devices, we react as expected, traumatised by the damage. We time trip, lose our minds, have nervous breakdowns. Or we would as Billy does. The film is about this journey, the journey of the pilgrim called Pilgrim to save his sanity and humanity in the aftermath of Armageddon.

Billy’s PTSD will time trip him through all sorts of dark burlesque that parodies normality. This includes the postwar middle-class American family Billy is tangentially a part of, a normality made by conformity, consumption and patriotism. Billy as war hero, husband, father, home and dog owner, Lions Club president, successful optometrist. Red-white-and-blue middle American — especially white. The land of the Midwest, doubtlessly, Trump country in the making. Having survived Dresden, he’s now asked to survive this. How can he? By time tripping, his shell-shock nightmares refusing to release him. What is real and what’s a dream? Dresden or this? — the family dog, corpulent wife, spoiled children, big lawn and big cars.

He’s saved, it seems, by Montana Wildhack, a buxom starlet who likes to take her clothes off in film. Billy fantasizes about her. So does his teenage son Robert who sits wild-eyed on the toilet with magazines featuring her nudity. Father and son seem united in aesthetic taste, as we see in one family scene at a drive-in movie. Flashing her wares on the big screen, Montana shares a Roman bath with a callow young centurion, soon to be made a man. Outraged, mum and daughter avert their eyes. Not so father and son. Both gape and salivate.

This being Vonnegut, of course Billy and Montana will have to meet. They do so, but not here on Earth where most people meet. They meet on Tralfamadore, a planet in a distant star system. Billy and dog Spot are abducted by aliens — Tralfamadorians — to be studied. Billy and Spot live in a glass dome on the planet. The atmosphere is noxious, largely composed of cyanide, so walking the dog outside the dome is not an option. Billy’s masters (whom we hear but don’t see) want him to be comfortable, but he is not. Though he loves Spot, he feels isolated and lonely. The aliens read his thoughts and teleport Montana Wildhack to the planet and dome. She arrives shrieking, panicked and topless, her only raiment a thin G-string. Billy smiles upon her arrival, pleased with both the courtesy of his hosts and Montana’s contours.

They get to know one another rather quickly, become affectionate, mate (beneath the ‘night canopy’, which Billy routinely requests for privacy when they copulate, which is frequent). Time passes and they sire a child — a little boy, the first human being not born on Earth.

Curiously, Billy is able to revisit Earth but when his daughter and her husband refuse to believe his claims about Tralfamadore, Montana and the baby he decides to permanently relocate to the other planet. Apparently.

Maybe that’s what Vonnegut really wants to say. Maybe any planet that can perpetuate and countenance the destruction of Dresden forfeits its status as a pleasure dome. Billy will take his chances elsewhere, isolation, cyanide and other negativities be damned. Back home in the dome loyal dog, sexy mate and healthy son await him. Also, it should be noted that Tralfamadore’s temporal make-up does not include past and future. The present is the be-all and end-all on that planet.

So in the end Montana with her top off becomes Billy’s call to sanity. Survivor indeed.
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Fiorucci Daniele
5つ星のうち4.0 Molto bello, come me lo ricordavo.
2013年12月27日にイタリアでレビュー済み
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Excellent film against the backdrop of Dresden bombing in the II World War, based on the memorable novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr . Beautiful classical music for the soundtrack by Glenn Gould. The dvd arrived very soon and in perfect condition. No subtitles in Italian, though. No extras except the trailer.
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