Slaughterhouse- Five Criticism

The Movie Representation
The movie version of Slaughterhouse-Five was a major success in representing the book written by Kurt Vonnegut. No movie can grasp the imaginations figured out by the reader’s mind but this movie does a pretty close assimilation of what is described the book. Vonnegut wrote this book in great detail providing the reader with a clear visual and it is hard for a movie to cover all these minute specifics. In general, the movie expresses the story in a decent manner considering the age of the movie.
Director George Roy Hill brought the characters to reality when he chose Michael Sacks to portray Billy Pilgrim. The audience get the feel in the beginning when he struggles through the knee high snow in an awkward way. We see the portrayal of the book even further when he first encounters Weary and the two other soldiers. Billy trembles under the brute force of the tough soldiers who threaten to kill him at first. This scene again enhances the image audiences have in their mind of Billy as a pacifier.
The effects for the movies they had in 1972 are primitive compared to the modern day advanced technologies and pleasing the audience of the new age with what they had is a hard task. The movie still manages to pull of a few giggles here and there. One scene that is easy to get stuck in the head is the one where Billy teaches his dogs tricks while all the wife does is make delicious desserts. The movie has many scenes that get in you head like that and bring a smile on your face.