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There is a saying that "a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier", and before reading this article or watching this drama, I want you to ask yourself, what do you think:
Is a soldier who is afraid of death a good soldier?
I won't say my thoughts first, and you don't want to say your answer, I'll first talk about the TV series itself.
I probably read the Catch-22 novel many years ago, but I have completely forgotten what it said about it, to be honest, I remember it very well anyway. After watching the drama now, it still looks good, but I used to laugh after laughing, but now YOYO starts to cry after laughing. There's a saying that goes well, "Try to say your miserable day in a funny way and you'll make yourself laugh" - that's probably where Catch 22 is funny.
Everyone is afraid of death. The male protagonist of this film, because he is afraid of death and loves peace, chose the air force with the longest military training time-hoping that the war will end when the military training is over. But before the war was over, the military training was over, and he went to the European battlefield. But as a person who is afraid of death, every time he performs a flight mission, he has to bear huge psychological pressure. During the war, his friends who enlisted with him at the same time died one by one, but he was constantly added to the flight mission and added to the military. Until he can't retire. The whole drama revolves around the story that he has been working hard to be discharged from the army since he went to the battlefield.
If I take the current situation in China as an example, Xiao Li is moving bricks in a 996 company. The slogan of the company's CEO Dongge is that if you are my brother, you can not work overtime, but if you don't work overtime, you are not my brother. So you still have to work overtime. Xiao Li didn't want 996, but he was afraid that his 996 would be too bald and die early. He wanted to go to a 965 company. Then his boss was afraid that he would not be able to find a suitable replacement for Xiao Li, so he desperately threatened Xiao Li, saying that 965 company did not The future is blahblah, and he has no time to find a home for Xiao Li to work on. Xiao Li can only desperately 996 every day...
The soundtrack of this film is based on the popular music of the 1920s and 1930s, Swing Jazz, and Italian minor. This kind of music, combined with the calm picture of the Italian island and the bloody picture of the war, very well established the overall dark humorous tone of the film. In such an atmosphere, the male protagonist reluctantly climbed the plane that made him unbearable again and again, watching himself dodging the shells again and again, while his comrades died one after another. Artillery fire, and finally gradually into "madness".
Catch22, what I want to satirize is the "chicken-blooded" American society at that time, that kind of "chicken-blooded" society full of "American Dream", and also satirizes many people who believe in this chicken-blood theory and those who believe in this "chicken-blood" The people who make the rules of society. People are afraid of death, but in order to obey the group, people have to pretend that they are not afraid of death to fight, and fight for the generals who blindly exploit the blood, sweat and life of soldiers.
Back to the previous question, is a soldier who is afraid of death a good soldier? ——In any case, please keep the answer in your heart, even if you really have to go to the battlefield one day, the most important thing is to go home alive.
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