Adapted from the 1961 satirical anti-war novel by Joseph Heller, “Capture-22” is a black comedy set in the course of Environment War II at a fictional armed service base in Pianosa, Italy. The movie delivers a darkly comical critique of war by way of the eyes of U.S. Military Air Power B-25 bombardier John Yossarian (Alan Arkin), whose commanding officer proceeds to shift the goalpost of how lots of missions an airman desires to full prior to rotating residence. Immediately after suffering from a mental breakdown from seeing his friends die all over again and once again but receiving no respite, Yossarian learns of the Military policy “Capture-22,” which states that if airmen are sane adequate to know they really don’t want to fly more missions, they are not unwell enough to go property, but if they continue to fly, they are insane. The phrase for the plan, which in essence would make it impossible for airmen to leave, has come into common usage to point out a paradox exactly where a person is unable to escape a problem or rule circumstance thanks to a logical trouble with the rule alone.
- Starring: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin
- Director: Mike Nichols
- Yr: 1970
- Runtime: 122 minutes
- Ranking: R
- Rotten Tomatoes Score: 80%
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