Mash and the Cold War

MASH, directed by Robert Altman was the highest grossing satirical antiwar movie of 1970. It was the first of its kind, in terms of being an anti-war movie that employed humour to outline war as absurd and not justified. MASH wasnt a movie with a very eventful p masses, nevertheless rather a collection of incidents within, as the name suggests, a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, which were fully functioning hospitals that were fixed in combat beas. For a viewer of this movie, it would seem intimately unorganised, with random incidents that do not have a lot of relation and there is no build up to the climax, exactly it is the concept of the movie that has to be taken into account. These doctors were dealing with the horrors of war, to a greater extent so than others. They were assigned to treat injuries of the war, and had to deal with death of a daily basis. Because of this they employed humour to deal with the atrocities that came their way each day in a struggle to keep their sanity. Altman mean to expose the reality of the war to the audience for its chaotic constitution and the damage it causes. MASH is the spinoff of the popular TV show of the aforesaid(prenominal) name that ran for eleven seasons. But the movie is more send on and harsh, because of its involvement of gore, open criticism of religion and the satire of sexuality.



The patch involves the characters (different actors were chosen), such as Hawkeye, Tracker John, Duke and Hot Lips (nicknames). The story involves random incidents wherein the characters be trying to distract themselves from the horrific reality, by playing pranks, winsome in sexual encounters, picking fights and playing games. It was a counterculture choose that Altman created, playing no heed to the social conventions of America at the time.

There are several popular scenes that remembered to this day, some of them are as follows:

-Funeral Scene (Suicide is Painless): Being one of the most salubrious known scenes of the movie, it carries heavy symbolism and openly ridicules religion...If you want to desexualize a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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