Sacks captures the origin of Billy's milquetoast nature as it emerges from a wisdom borne of timelessness. Michael Sacks's performance is exemplary, playing Billy with a naivete and innocence that is both charming and endearing. The overall philosophy - that "life is just a collection of moments, and the trick is to remember the good and ignore the bad" - emerges both as a line of dialogue and a lesson demonstrated by the narrative structure of the film without seeming didactic. In the list of unfilmable books I thought that Kurt Vonnegut's most famous novel would rank high on the list next to Naked Lunch, but George Roy Hill's adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five diverges from the book just enough to make it a viable film and stays true enough to the novel that it still retains the plot and spirit of the original. World War II vet Billy Pilgrim time-jumps throughout his life on Earth and on Tralfamadore.
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