The anti-war theme is unparalleled, five points recommended

Dorothy 2021-12-31 08:01:59

An old film full of fun. The various things that happened in a front-line field hospital during the Korean War are incompatible with the image of a serious soldier. Just picking up girls and making a man, the fake funeral of the dentist has turned into a special treatment for men and a breakthrough in rebellion. New heights... Suddenly I remembered Feng Xiaogang's "big name", he was also the starring brother, is it a tribute to this film?
The last football game is the most important stalk. Colonel Henry and Hot lips, who have been the most stubbornly adhere to the orthodox authority of the army in the field hospital, are also completely crazy, implying that opposing war is the common aspiration of everyone, but some people realized early that some brainwashed people need a process.
The director's narrative method is not fancy, and basically follows two main lines. One is the operating table of a field hospital, with bloody operations and dull long shots, reminding the audience of the cruelty of war. The other main line is the protagonist's unruly things in the military hospital. All the so-called military discipline and honors of high-sounding are ruthlessly torn apart and crumpled into comic stories of laughter and scolding. There are many small details that can be digged into, like Radar’s self-determined transmission of the commander’s order, which needs to be experienced slowly.
After decades of anti-Vietnam War and anti-Iraq War films, one after another, one by one made a lot of bitterness, and I have never seen such an interesting film again.

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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.