When I just watched the movie, my first feeling was: chaos. The whole article is filled with a lot of neurotic, illogical lines, which makes people dazzled. But after thinking about it, this may also highlight the main theme of the film: it is the war that drives people crazy, and everyone in the war is a "madman".
This film has a high degree of completion of the original work, and a large number of lines are directly quoted from the original work. And in some scene settings, it is also very profound. For example, Mei Zhe, an orderly who was doing laundry, was randomly promoted to major by a colonel and talked to his orderly. We can see that the photos on the wall were inadvertently changed.
Obviously, this can't be what the plot needs. I think the setting of this detail reflects the absurdity of the war. Soldiers are numb in the war, and they don't know who they are fighting for. This brings me to another episode: the commander confronts the protagonist Yossarian: 'Why can't you give your life for the country, for the colonel and me? ' Yossarian asked back: 'Are you and the country one thing? 'When the sacrifice of soldiers becomes a tool of profit for those in power, such sacrifices mean nothing.
The Germans as enemies are almost never seen in the film, and the so-called "M&M Company" instead permeates the entire film. The commander blatantly traded soldiers' parachutes for statues in the name of "M&M"; the company made a deal with the Germans to blow up the country's military facilities, and even killed Natalie; even the colonel was openly doing dirty work with the company 's deeds. There is no background about the company in the film, but what's the use of the introduction? The "company" in the film refers to those individuals and organizations that use the lives of soldiers for profit, and then make a lot of money.
Of course, the film does have flaws in its narrative structure. The movie interspersed the plots of Yossarian's assassination and the war being shot down and sacrificed many times. Obviously, the director wanted to use flashbacks. But at least in my opinion, this method did not give me much shock. On the contrary, it was very tasteless because it could not be smoothly connected with the subsequent plot.
The episode that impressed me the most was Natalie's conversation with a local priest. Natalie asked: Isn't it better to die standing than to live on your knees? The priest said it should be the other way around, that it is better to live standing up than die kneeling.
why? I think the deep meaning of this sentence is that although Italy is very weak and has some "failures", they have "morals" - their own minds, know when to think and choose, such a people will not be Affected by the victory or defeat of the outside world, although they kneel and stand; on the contrary, those who follow the trend and blindly obey the authority will easily collapse with the collapse of the authority, as the so-called "the tree falls and the hozen scatters".
The sages said: In this world, only love and war do not need reason. Everything in war is madness, it drives people mad, and then uses those madmen to drive more people mad. As the saying goes, "make some people crazy first". If you want not to be driven mad, only by thinking constantly, not following the trend, and not giving up resistance, can you gain true freedom in this crazy era.
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