M*A*S*H (1970)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 116m
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman
Synopsis:
Life on a Mobile Army Hospital unit during the Korean war.
Review:
Of course most people realized the film was actually about Vietnam, hence the nihilism, the pervading sense of pointlessness and incompetence, and even the structural chaos of the picture, which for two hours-plus boasts no real semblance of plot at all. Immensely influential in its overlapping/muttered dialogue (not exactly helped by surgical masks) and satirical humour at the expense of Man's essential selfishness and absurd military protocol (the latter of which drew rather more focus in the TV series that followed). A film that has aged well, now that all the attention is not taken by the gore and bad language.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 116m
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman
Synopsis:
Life on a Mobile Army Hospital unit during the Korean war.
Review:
Of course most people realized the film was actually about Vietnam, hence the nihilism, the pervading sense of pointlessness and incompetence, and even the structural chaos of the picture, which for two hours-plus boasts no real semblance of plot at all. Immensely influential in its overlapping/muttered dialogue (not exactly helped by surgical masks) and satirical humour at the expense of Man's essential selfishness and absurd military protocol (the latter of which drew rather more focus in the TV series that followed). A film that has aged well, now that all the attention is not taken by the gore and bad language.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 116m
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman
Synopsis:
Life on a Mobile Army Hospital unit during the Korean war.
Review:
Of course most people realized the film was actually about Vietnam, hence the nihilism, the pervading sense of pointlessness and incompetence, and even the structural chaos of the picture, which for two hours-plus boasts no real semblance of plot at all. Immensely influential in its overlapping/muttered dialogue (not exactly helped by surgical masks) and satirical humour at the expense of Man's essential selfishness and absurd military protocol (the latter of which drew rather more focus in the TV series that followed). A film that has aged well, now that all the attention is not taken by the gore and bad language.