Not just anti-war

Hollie 2021-12-31 08:01:59

MASH is the abbreviation of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, which is also the abbreviation of "(U.S.) Army Mobile Surgical Hospital", and this anti-war film of the same name, filmed in the 1970s, has a very hot Chinese translation. Name-"The Merry Military Doctor and Pretty Nurse".

This is another absurd utopian noir carnival movie, with beauties in the car, temptations in uniforms, romantic affair... So I have to admit: I was once again deeply attracted. This is hopelessly depraved, just like what Woody Allen wants to express in "Mensah's Whore": Compared with the business of the flesh, there can also be a prostitute in the spiritual world. The only difference lies in the former. It is to make the dick cool, and the latter is to make the head cool.

At this time, my head is still very cool. Seeing the lonely helicopter flying over the mountains and towards the camp in the background music of "Suicide is painless" at the beginning of the movie, I thought it would be the beginning of a heavy expression, but I didn’t expect it—in fact, it’s not a serious one at all. The airplane, but a happy worm, is flying leisurely to the mother body of the earth.

In the tent, the bald doctor was still praying devoutly: thank the country, thank the party, and wish the great leader always healthy... The new tall doctor took a glass of martini and asked the people around him: "Is this buddy okay?" The person next to him replied: "It will take half an hour."

The tall doctor met another new bearded doctor and handed him a glass of martini. The bearded doctor glanced disdainfully: "No olive, what a martini!" The tall doctor got angry: "This is the front line, where's the olives!" The beard unbuttoned his chest, took out a bottle of canned olives, skillfully picked one, threw it into the cup, and clinked a drink.

The new head nurse is serious and responsible, and hits the bald head at first sight. They all agreed that people like tall people and bearded people have very poor styles and lack advanced education, so they need to be specifically reported. So in a dark and windy night for a month, they formed a lofty revolutionary friendship and made further breakthroughs-the head nurse is like a cow in heat, with her bald waist between her legs and shouting: "Kiss my hot lip!" But unfortunately, the above content was broadcast live by the tall man and the bearded man in the form of a battlefield broadcast...

The bald head was unwilling to be humiliated and fought with the tall man, and was finally sent home. People on the side complained: "If I have sex with hot lip first and then fight with you, will I be able to go home early?"

At this point, you may be wondering what is so good about such a movie? The chaotic characters, the plot without the main line of the plot, the whole story is a blend of "shameless" and "fornication", like a nonsensical comedy. My personal opinion is: A really good movie can make people think, just like this one.

Obviously, this film conveys a kind of anti-war thinking, but anti-war is by no means purely against war or someone, it is against thinking that seems to be just but incompatible with the times. Therefore, in the film, we can see that whether it is a bald doctor or a Hot lip nurse, they are all serious and professional medical staff. The gauze fell in the wound. This is not out of the need of the plot, but necessary, because as individuals, they are not wrong, but for some reason they have become the backwards of the times. So when they become the object of being teased, they do not feel sad, but have a kind of April Fools' carnival feeling. Use a kind of absurd perspective to present another kind of absurdity itself, at this time absurdity is no longer absurd, but serious reality.

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MASH quotes

  • Trapper John: [In O.R] Dish, let me have a long needle holder.

    Duke Forrest: [Mulcahy is performing the last rites on a casualty] Hey, Dago! Dago! Dago, I want you over here to hold this retraction. Now! Please, come on, now!

    Father John Patrick 'Dago Red' Mulcahy: Sorry, I'm coming.

    Hawkeye Pierce: Hi, Dago.

    Duke Forrest: I'm sorry, Dago, but this man is still alive and that other man is dead, and that's a fact. Can you hold it with two fingers, Dago? Hell... Where the hell... Do ya see it?

  • Duke Forrest: [In O.R] I can't stop that bleeding down there.

    [to Dish]

    Duke Forrest: Is that true what I hear about you? Get me a clamp. Get me a clamp.

    Lt. Maria 'Dish' Schneider: Captain Pierce, did you call me?

    Hawkeye Pierce: No, I didn't, and my name is Hawkeye.

    Duke Forrest: I can't really see it. It's like the Mississippi River down there. Doesn't feel like it's in one piece, I can tell you that much. It's gotta come out of there. Give me some more of that gauze.

    Hawkeye Pierce: Nurse, you got a clamp?

    Lt. Maria 'Dish' Schneider: Yes.

    Hawkeye Pierce: Scratch my nose. A little harder.