"He came slightly unstuck in time, saw the late movie backwards, then forwards" page 74
Vonnegut's anti-war mentality is present when Billy watches the war movie backwards. Suddenly, the harsh reality of the war is reversed, and we see the war from a new perspective. There are no Germans heavily bombing and killing human beings, but rather German fighters "made everything and everybody as good as new." There is horrible machinery of war, infamously bombs used in raids, being dismantled and there is separating of "dangerous contents into minerals." The direction of war is reversed and a better society is built in the process. I believe Vonnegut is stressing the need for this to happen. He wants war to cease and society to progress past senseless killing. He wants to see humans helping each other, and holding a genuine desire to uphold the common good.
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