I did not care much for the movie or the book. I think this story was scattered and hard to follow. I like to read books that I can follow and I can get something out of it. I did not see no point in this book. There was no lesson taught so I did not find this book interesting.
If I had to choose that one that I preferred it would be the book. If you watched the movie without reading the book then you would not understand what is taking place. Also the book contained some elements that the movie did not contain. For instance, in the book the first chapter was all about the author so you knew where the book was coming from. This part was not in the movie. Also in the book they put more emphasis on the aliens and I believed the movie should of focused more on them. The aliens was a great way for Billy to escape his reality. Therefore the aliens should of been more included in the movie.
So I would recommend people to read the novel before they watch the movie. You probably will be disappointed with the movie if you do it in this order but you will better understand the movie if you read the novel first.
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No lesson? I must disagree! The fact that war leaves such an indelible impression on this man, these men, the author, the fictional character, the wife (Mary O'Hare), which includes such inhuman, indefensible acts as bombing and killing 130,000 civilians, collecting tens of thousands of poor children, ostensibly to send them to Palestine to fight for Jerusalem, but selling them into slavery in Northern Africa instead, or that would invent & take delight in such inventions of torture like the Iron Maiden, the thumbscrew, or any of many things, & these images shoved violently into these characters' psyches, highlights the conflicts inherent, really, in all our human relationships.
This is not to say there's a "reason" for war, or a "meaning" of this novel, or even a way to get rid of this violence in our world, but does help us see the complexities of things which many times we take as simple binaries: "friend" vs. "enemy," "guilt" vs. "innocence," etc. So the "point," then, might be that each of us must somehow come to terms with what we find in the darker regions of our experiences with each other, with our own capacity for violence, memory, love, loss, and whatever else we find along the way which challenges our childlike trust.
Are we being taken on a "children's crusade" when we buy into such ideologies like nationalism, patriotism, democracy, communism, or whatever? Are we innocent, or just gullible? Are we guilty, or just ignorant?
The time of this book and reason for the book was a horrible experience that these people were involved in. It was senseless to have this type of violence, burning of bodies and bombing of all people that were innocent. Like many books, you should take something from what you have read. I totally think it absolutely disgusting and repulsive that another human being could make such a device that would torture another human being. The iron maiden for instance, probably the most dispicible acts that could be done. Placing a human to get there eyes gouged out with spikes and crushing pressure.....horrible.
If anything, you may not have really gathered a lesson per se, but just enough to talk about the horror these people went through is enough. It makes you appreciate perhaps more of what liberties we have here and what things we all take for granted. If I would have seen half of the things he saw and had to do, I would not be sane chances are. Maybe he isn't either, we never really find out. But the lesson could be civility, patriotism, and maybe humility.
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