Lets Come Together

A movie that I really like that outlines war, although not completely, is Across the Universe. It is a movie that is centered around the Beatles anti-war songs and deals largly with Vietnam and the draft. It is about a brother and a sister who go out and make all sorts of crazy hippi friends, but when the brother is drafted things take a turn that will divide everyone. when the brother goes to the army center, he does everything he can to escape the draft, but in the end he is forced to go. While he is gone his sister goes on some wild adventures with "puff the magic dragon", but throughout the movie it cuts to scenes of him in the war. I don't want to give too much more away for those twerps who haven't watched this movie.

I am pretty sure that this is an anti-war movie because not only is it done to the music of an anti-war band, but it also puts a very negitive display of  war out to the viewer; at one point the charactors tried to burn the draft notices in protest to war. This movies main goals were definatly to bring a stong imagry to the Beatles songs and send the message of anti-war and peace to people. Some connections between Across the Universe and Slaughter House Five are the ideas of children fighting wars, non-linear naration, un-reliable naration, and a grotesk representation of war. I think both the movie producers, the Beatles, and Vonegut all agree that war is a place where adults use kids to settle there differences. For those reasons I think that Mrs. Mary O' Hare would greatly appreciate the message that this movie is sending about war, and she may even become a Beatles fan!