Tuesday, December 22, 2015
In Chapter 4, before Billy Pilgrim gets taken by the Tralfalmadorians, he watches a movie about the American bombers in World War II. After seeing it “he came slightly unstuck in time, saw the late movie backwards, then forwards again” (73). Living through a bombing must have been very traumatic for Billy. Visualizing this particular movie in reverse seems like it is wishful thinking. It is evident that he wants to go back in time and reverse the incidents that have happened, but what would he want to change? Would he change anything if he could?
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I agree with what you are saying about how he watches the movie in wishful thinking. The backwards war is the perfect sight for him because of the way everything is flipped around and creating peace rather than war. I don't think he wants to change it, I think he just is trying to understand it and make sense of everything in his own mind.
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