Blog Post 18

While reading chapter 4, we see Billy waiting for the flying saucer's arrival. While he is waiting he starts to watch a movie that is about American bombers in the second world war and some of the fearless men in it. The weird part about this chapter is that he watches the movie not only forwards but backwards. There is a reason for this. The way he watches the movie backwards correlates to his life in a way. Maybe he is seeing his life in reverse and what could have been different.The way he goes backwards makes me think its making him feel the affect the war had on him more. He keeps going into his past. This should show his life in order like the movie about the German city being in flames, and then going to what happened cause this to occur. Since Billy watched the movie in reverse it showed that he does not care about the order things are in, and in fact wishes he could change them as we see at the end of the chapter. Billy must have been thinking while the film was showing that no matter what way the events come out in, they all will result in the same outcome. His thought add to the role of this film in the book because they give it meaning. If we did not see billy looking into his past and life in reverse, then the movie being in reverse would almost be pointless to the novel.