There are many different war movies to choose from to compare to Slaughterhouse-Five. Platoon is a movie about the Vietnam War. It follows one platoon during their time at war, exploring the relationships between the characters, their struggle within themselves, and what war is really like. The movie is especially about how war can affect the soldiers that are fighting it.
The film shows the reality of war. It is definitely an anti-war movie. I think the filmmaker, Oliver Stone's goal was to show what really goes on. The movie focuses on how soldiers think, and how fighting in the war affects them, and teaches them about life. This way, viewers can understand soldiers more, especially from Vietnam, when a lot of horrible things go on. Viewers can see the horrors of war up close as the soldiers do, and maybe they can learn from it.
Slaughterhouse-Five and Platoon are very different, yet they are similar in many ways. They are both anti-war, and they both go from a soldier's point of view to show what they really went through. Their goal is to show what war is really like. However, Vonnegut focuses more on how soldiers are affected after the war, while Stone focuses on how soldiers are affected during it. Vonnegut also focuses on one particular character, Billy Pilgrim, while Stone, although he is telling it from the viewpoint of one character, Chris Taylor, it tells the story of multiple characters, focusing on how they relate to one another. In my opinion, both Vonnegut and Stone's goals are the same.
I think Mary O'Hare would like this film because it doesn't glamorize war. It shows that the soldiers really are "babies." It shows war as it really is, with none of the glamour that she hated so much, and which distorts perceptions of war.
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