No Way Out
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1987 |
| Country | United States |
| Director | Roger Donaldson |
| Cast | Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton |
| Genre | Political thriller |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | No Way Out | – |
| Español | Sin salida | Sin salida |
| Français | Sens unique | Sens unique |
| Deutsch | No Way Out – Es gibt kein Zurück | No Way Out – Es gibt kein Zuruck |
| Português | Sem Saída | Sem Saida |
| Italiano | Senza via di scampo | Senza via di scampo |
| Русский | Нет выхода | Net vykhoda |
| 中文（简体） | 无路可退 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 無路可退 | – |
| 한국어 | 노 웨이 아웃 | No wei aut |
| ไทย | No Way Out | No Way Out |
| Tiếng Việt | Không lối thoát | Khong loi thoat |
| Bahasa Indonesia | No Way Out | No Way Out |
| 日本語 | 追いつめられて | Oitsumerarete |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which institutional self-protection and personal exposure collide within a closed apparatus of pursuit.
■ Synopsis
A naval officer is assigned to investigate a murder while the investigation itself begins to close in on him.
■ RECIPE Tags
#SelfHuntingStructure #InstitutionalCoverUp #ClosedSystemPursuit #IdentityExposure
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: The investigator becomes the target
Reason: The search structure turns back toward the person assigned to control it.
Related Film: The Big Clock - Middle: Power converts guilt into a manufactured enemy
Reason: Institutional survival redirects crime into a usable fiction.
Related Film: The Parallax View - Core: Identity becomes the final trap
Reason: The hidden self is both the means of survival and the source of enclosure.
Related Film: The Conversation
■ Secondary Axes
- State machinery as pursuit: The system hunts the person who has entered its concealed logic.
Related Film: Three Days of the Condor - Political deception as containment: Public order is preserved by replacing truth with a controlled narrative.
Related Film: The Manchurian Candidate
■ Person
- Director: Roger Donaldson
- Cast: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton
■ Structural Tags
#SelfReferentialPursuit #NarrativeContainment #InstitutionalDeflection
■ Attribute Tags
#UnitedStates #1987Film #PoliticalThriller
