Beautiful but senseless

Rating: 2/10 (30 May 2019)

After reading IMDB-reviews about a Hitchcock´s film "The trouble with Harry", I started to suspect that "Catch-22" has something to do with that movie, a writer, screenplay, or something. But no. The Catch-22 is said to be about insanity of war meanwhile "The trouble with Harry" is obviously it´s counterpart about insanity of peace. In a word, the both films try to give an impression that dying/killing of human being does not have any existential or social meaning. The dead are gone, and the survivors keep on planning marriages, keep on smiling and having trivial dialogues. True, in the "Catch-22", the protagonist is a deserter, a coward and anti-war, but the movie doesn´t succeed to be either anti-war not funny, but rather absurdly indifferent, that does not hit the nail on the head.
The book "Catch-22" is tedious, still unfinished in my bookshelf. To find beneficial aspects, in the movie the airplanes deployed in sunny Italy do look overwhelming and the cast is impressive. Furthermore the book has some kind of enchant (that does not last) because Heller uses tautologies and very rare expressions and words that are not familiar to non-english native speaker.
But I can´t believe they are re-making this as a serie in 2019!
After all one might ask himself: is there there anything funny in the war, especially in the bombers capable of unimaginable mass destruction?