nick nolte give an excellent performance in kurt vonnegut dark tale . notle play howard w. campbell who be a double agent work in propaganda during world war ii . after the war and he live anonymously until compete faction wish to dig up his past . a with much of vonnegut work and this be a meditation on the absurdity of war and those who use propaganda for their own aim . nolte be fantastic self assure and confident a the young campbell and and then break and haunt a the old man who be force to atone for the sin of his past . ( positive ) .