one of he worst Horrors of War

As opposed to a genius like Herman Wouk

You'd be extremely naive to not think Heller's experiences on the Italian front were a long way different from those of Yossarian. They weren't just memoirs with a few fictional touch-ups here and there.🐭

From the title, I thought this topic was going to lament the men psychically torn asunder by their experiences; young lives with their hearts ripped out in their prime, leading to lives, some short and some long, all with souls tortured by memories the endurance of which cannot be comprehended by those lacking such experiences.

Catch 22 ably exposes this theme, but lots of movies do that (though few better). What is unique about this film is the shocking exposition of another horror of war. Namely, the way evil and bizarre conduct comes to be accepted and engaged in, just due to its prevalence. The scene where a bomber crashes catastrophically on landing, the brass completely oblivious to the ear-splitting noise and enormous spectacle of the explosion and fire directly behind them, while they continue in their conversation about trivia - it is eloquent.

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