As Yossarian Film Analysis

During World War II, a soldier named Yossarian is assigned with his Air Force squadron on the island of Pianosa, close to Italy in the Mediterranean Sea. Yossarian and his peers endure a miserable reality defined by authority and violence. The inhuman resources in the eyes of their pushy superior officers. The squadron is thrown into horrid combat situations and bombing runs where it’s necessary for the squadron to capture good aerial photographs of explosions than to destroy the targets. Their colonels quickly raise the number of missions that they are required to fly before being sent home. Yossarian seems to realize that there is a war going on while everyone else is oblivious. He insists that millions of people are trying to kill him, although …show more content…
His friend Nately falls in love with a lady from Rome and tries to show her his love constantly, although her continued indifference and the fact that her kid sister constantly interferes with their romance. She does fall in love with Nately, but he is killed on his next mission. When Yossarian brings her the bad news, she attacks him for Nately’s death and tries to stab him every time she sees him from that point on. The movie ends while Yossarian, troubled by Nately’s death, refuses to fly any missions. He wanders the streets of Rome, encountering every kind of human horror. He is arrested for entering Rome without a pass, and his officers, Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn, give him a choice. He can face a court-martial or be released and sent home with an honorable discharge. For him to be released, it requires all the men in the squadron to fly eighty missions. Although he is tempted by the offer, Yossarian grasps that to comply would be to endanger the lives of other innocent men. He picks another way out, deciding to desert the army and disappears to neutral Sweden. In doing so, he turns his back on the military, and begins to regain control of his own