Film · 1970 · Comedy

MASH

Directed by Robert Altman
1970
★ 6.8 editorial score

Altman's overlapping dialogue turns up fully formed: army surgeons in Korea behave appallingly in order to stay sane, and the film was really about Vietnam all along.

“One of the reasons "MASH" is so funny is that it's so desperate. It is set in a surgical hospital just behind the front lines in Korea, and it is drenched in blood. The surgeons work rapidly and with a gory detachment, sawing off legs and tying up arteries, and making their work possible by pretending they don't care. And when they are at last out of the operating tent, they devote their lives to remaining sane.”
— Roger Ebert · rogerebert.com
Setting
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1970Depicts Korean WarDepicts 1950s

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