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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Extended Reading
  • Ellen 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    The last supper part was very thoughtful, while other farce felt a little too much, especially the prank on the hot lips, which can no longer be called a prank. If it's irony, it's really dark.

  • Clarissa 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    This is a movie rendition in the style of Catch 22

MASH quotes

  • Painless: [lining up during football game] All right, Bub, your fuckin' head is coming right off.

    [the first use of the word "fuck" in a major motion picture]

  • Hawkeye Pierce: Duke?

    Duke Forrest: [in the middle of a brain operation with Spearchucker] Uh... what is it?

    Hawkeye Pierce: Henry's got our orders. We can go home.

    Duke Forrest: Right now?

    Spearchucker: Anytime! Whenever we want.

    Spearchucker: [to Duke] You mind if we get out of this guy's brain first?