Catch-22
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1970 |
| Country | United States |
| Director | Mike Nichols |
| Cast | Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Buck Henry, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles |
| Genre | Satirical war comedy-drama |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | Catch-22 | – |
| Español | Trampa 22 | Trampa 22 |
| Français | Catch 22 | – |
| Deutsch | Catch-22 | – |
| Português | Ardil 22 | Ardil 22 |
| Italiano | Comma 22 | Comma 22 |
| Русский | Уловка-22 | Ulovka-22 |
| 中文（简体） | 第二十二条军规 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 第二十二條軍規 | – |
| 한국어 | 캐치-22 | Kaechi-22 |
| ไทย | Catch-22 | – |
| Tiếng Việt | Catch-22 | – |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Catch-22 | – |
| 日本語 | キャッチ22 | Kyatchi 22 |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which bureaucratic logic and human survival collide within a military system that turns reason into entrapment.
■ Synopsis
A bombardier tries to escape combat, but the system that defines sanity, duty, and exemption traps him inside its own absurd logic.
■ RECIPE Tags
#AbsurdAuthority #BureaucraticEntrapment #SurvivalAgainstSystem #LogicAsViolence
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Sanity as disqualification
Reason: The wish to survive is reclassified by the institution as proof that escape is impossible.
Related Film: MASH - Middle: Bureaucracy as absurd power
Reason: Rules become self-protecting mechanisms that detach institutional order from human life.
Related Film: Brazil - Core: Survival against imposed logic
Reason: The conclusion moves toward refusing a system whose rational form produces moral insanity.
Related Film: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
■ Secondary Axes
- War as administrative absurdity: Military order becomes a machine that normalizes death through procedure.
Related Film: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Individual against circular law: The subject is trapped by a rule structure that invalidates every exit.
Related Film: The Trial
■ Person
- Director: Mike Nichols
- Cast: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Buck Henry, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles
■ Structural Tags
#CircularLogic #InstitutionalTrap #AbsurdCommand
■ Attribute Tags
#UnitedStates #1970Film #NovelAdaptation
