Music Babble

It opens with a line something like "this is about two men meeting during the last days of a dying planet" which was pretty pertinent in 1973 when so many people were throwing their hands up in the air over the world's problems and declaring civilization to be over with (thank God Vonnegut isn't alive now) but which was how Vonnegut probably felt every day of his life from age 30 on--it's usually forgotten that he attempted suicide in the 1980s.

The movie is cynical too but nowhere near as bleak as Vonnegut.
The 1996 Mother Night adaptation starring Nick Nolte and directed by the dorky guy from Christine and Back To School was okay, I guess, but it's pretty obscure nowadays.

Just thank God you never read Vonnegut's REAL flops, crud like Hocus Pocus and Deadeye Dick and Slapstick (which Vonnegut himself gave a "D-" to in a 1981 nonfiction essay) and Jailbird, the book where Vonnegut states that we'd be living in a socialist brotherhood-of-man utopia had Sacco and Vanzetti not been executed. Uhhh, sure? Was Roger Waters taking notes when he proposed that Live Aid would save the world?