- The enemy," Yossarian said with heavy intransigence, "is to be considered anyone who seeks your death, on whose side he finds himself.
The authors of a new TV adaptation of one of my favorite books get points for bravery. And for the selection of (a) suitable type and (b) good actors. Okay.
The script is limp on both legs. If Heller built his original as a mosaic, nonlinear in time and space, and masterfully used montage and parallel narration, those responsible for transferring his text to the screen tried to straighten and arrange all this complex and fragile structure in chronological order.
No reason. Because of this, the vast majority of the key, dramatic, pivotal moments for the plot, for which *reader* prepares numerous repetitions and compositional rings for a hundred pages, falls on *the viewer* like snow on his head, without any warning. Accordingly, the effect is close to zero. What a catharsis.
A separate “fi” deserves a new ending, completely erasing the main idea of the book.