Length: 116 minutes
Production: USA 1970
Plot: The film tells the story of team of surgeons at a hospital military discipline if they laugh and do not care to go on pain of sanctions, showing all their contempt for the war. Satirical comedy, biting, going beyond the intentions of the same script, lays bare the hypocrisy of an officer during the Korean War. Desecrate everything, including those killed in the dirty war. At a formal level it is a of the great masterpieces of cinema. Altman surprised by the ability to use a realistic language and the ability to assemble together realism and satire, leaving the audience uncertain about the nature of what we are seeing.
Alberto Moravia
Mash, Robert Altman is a war movie that won the prize at festivals in Cannes probably because it is a war movie. Cannes then would become a meeting place for those who once were called "warmongers"? Quite the contrary, the film undoubtedly has been rewarded for being pacifist. Now let's see if this is true and pacifism. According to the students of warfare, the war would be a kind of bloodletting that some countries which have too much of anything (too many men, too much wealth, too many products, too many managers, too many unemployed people, etc.. Etc..) Impose themselves more or less unconsciously. As saying that the wars would not because you do not have anything and want to rob a neighbor, but because it has too much of something and you need to close the iiberarsene. For example, poor countries have too many people while the rich countries have too much wealth. Here are a war ready. Through the war, wealth and population will be "deflated". In fact this has happened in Europe during the last two centuries. The atomic bomb not alter this state of affairs. It would simply be a weapon the size of the masses. But because there is too much of something? It is here that Mash, film apparently bellicose pacifist but in reality, can give an answer. There is too much of anything when there is repression or diversion of energy for aggressive purposes. In Mash tells the story of two surgeons and collegiate revelers, but very good in their profession who, during the Korean War, which occurred in a field hospital, make a mockery of the conventions that are typical of the military society. Their favorite target is a great captain and player of the Bible in the privacy (relative) of its Cabin great hunter of skirts. The captain jumps on a nurse and does not realize a microphone that allows his two colleagues recorded the groans, the loud roars and the agonies of love. Shameless, the captain gives in outburst and is taken away weight all tied in a straitjacket. We said that the repression is at the root of the war. Now between the master hypocrite who is sleeping with the nurses and two surgeons who shamelessly, there is no doubt that they are repressed. We know that the captain pretended to be religious but really loves women, but we have no idea what they love the two surgeons, because they are not hypocrites and do not pretend, and what they do (make the war wounded), I do well and seriously. So in the absence of any other explanation, one has to believe that they do not like women, but only their job which is war. Repressed and efficient, have it with the captain, not because it is hypocritical but because it is repressed and therefore probably is not efficient. Moreover, the film has its own atmosphere reeking of the barracks a mile away. It is not the Prussian barracks, okay, it's the barracks Anglo kiplinghiana, hemingweiana, where jokes and makes fun of the war, but to make it better. The mockery that the two surgeons goliardic combine against their fellow soldiers have always catalyst for sex. But the two allegroni, they are chaste. So militarism manifests itself for what it is: a repression so complete and so profound that you just have to laugh and joke and make war. As always happens in films of the genre, the actors are good but a skill that almost dangerously funny and cliche pseudo-liberating. Donald Sutherland and Tom Skerrit, between a joke and another, until the nose dive in the blood of operating rooms. Seem happy with their good wishes, two obstetricians who preside over the birth of new lives. Actually put their science at the service of what some have called a collective delayed infanticide. That is the war.
Tullio Kezich
The symbol of the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital title means and stands for a surgical field hospital during the Korean War. Screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr. (who was one of the "Hollywood 10" victims of witch-hunting) and directed by Robert Altman (a newcomer to big TV experience), MASH is between Dr. Strangelove and the taste of Luis Buñuel. At least the first half hour the film shows us, with incredible recklessness, transferred into a farcical situation of the surgeons in uniform: there is no taboo militarist Altman does not seem willing to laugh at in no uncertain terms, with a humor black makes me shudder because of its close connection with reality. Do not forget that the U.S. is still engaged in a war in Asia and the distance from the facts that the film tells is only apparent. Unfortunately, the determination of the authors it paves the way, the fantasy falls back on familiar ways of comedy films and aggression in the chaos of a burning structure Sketches. The parody of the Last Supper, taken from Viridian, is misplaced, the bawdy adventures of two characters reminiscent of the good-natured Bili Mauldin cartoons about World War II. Thus arises the legitimate suspicion that MASH is only an updated version of the old farces Torque tube loose military so that he could obtain without diplomatic complications the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
The symbol of the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital title means and stands for a surgical field hospital during the Korean War. Screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr. (who was one of the "Hollywood 10" victims of witch-hunting) and directed by Robert Altman (a newcomer to big TV experience), MASH is between Dr. Strangelove and the taste of Luis Buñuel. At least the first half hour the film shows us, with incredible recklessness, transferred into a farcical situation of the surgeons in uniform: there is no taboo militarist Altman does not seem willing to laugh at in no uncertain terms, with a humor black makes me shudder because of its close connection with reality. Do not forget that the U.S. is still engaged in a war in Asia and the distance from the facts that the film tells is only apparent. Unfortunately, the determination of the authors it paves the way, the fantasy falls back on familiar ways of comedy films and aggression in the chaos of a burning structure Sketches. The parody of the Last Supper, taken from Viridian, is misplaced, the bawdy adventures of two characters reminiscent of the good-natured Bili Mauldin cartoons about World War II. Thus arises the legitimate suspicion that MASH is only an updated version of the old farces Torque tube loose military so that he could obtain without diplomatic complications the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
And now it's up to me: Honestly m'è happened to "know" his death, in the sense that yesterday for the first time I saw one of his films, which I have aired on Rete 4 in his honor. Pretty nice movie, beautiful scenes of the cruel and beautiful the way to turn. A good film.
Until next time ... ;)
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