Catch-22 - Der böse Trick

Das Durcheinander, in dem ich ähnlich wie Captain Yossarian verloren ging, war kein Kriegsdurcheinander, sondern ein Drehbuchdurcheinander. Ich habe eine Reihe von ausgezeichneten Szenen gesehen, einige unglaublich lustige, einige absurde und eiskalte. Dennoch hatte ich zum Schluss das Gefühl, dass ich viele von ihnen gar nicht sehen musste, dass sie eigentlich überflüssig waren. Catch-22 - Der böse Trick müsste viel länger sein. Dann könnte man die Szenen in die Handlung richtig eingliedern und all die seltsamen Figuren in Uniformen würden wie richtigen Figuren wirken. Die Anklage des Krieges ist aber auch so wirkungsvoll und die Starbesetzung wirklich prächtig. (23.06.2019)

Captain Yossarian has a problem. The government of the United States wants to win the war, the officers want a career and recognition, and Yossarian wants to survive first and foremost. These, as you will agree, are not completely identical goals, especially when Yossarian, with each unnecessary death and every example of the decay of moral values, loses more and more of his ideals and grows disgusted with the callousness and manipulation of the commanding officers. Yossarian is the opposite of exemplary, conscious heroes of war stories about courage and honor. Yossarian does not initially understand the madness around him, but the more he sees it, the more he desires to get rid of it and arrange things his own way. While watching the film, I appreciated the irony, situational comedy, and mockery of the traditional, pathetic concept of war, and yet I fully appreciated Nichols' film only after getting acquainted with the eponymous series. The film does not shy away from things, it is more apt, and I feel a greater presence of the author of the source material, Joseph Heller, in it. By the way, at the time of its creation, which dates back to the Vietnam War, a number of leading American film critics had a problem with the film, specifically with its protagonist. They considered him to be an amoral coward who undermined the anti-Nazi war effort. However, I completely understand Yossarian and his intentions. Overall impression: 90%. (04.02.2021)

When I finished watching this movie, I thought I should finally read the book, because it intrigues me. Catch-22 continues in the spirit of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and manages to be excellently critical as well as extremely funny. Not many anti-war films can do that quite like this one. (14.10.2016)