MASH

I know I haven't posted in over two months, and because of that I'm sure zero people are reading my blog as of now (also because no one was ever reading my blog). However, for school I had to watch MASH (we're learning about the Vietnam War and how it played out in the media), and it also happened to be on the AFI List, so I started up my little project again.

MASH was incredibly funny but also so politically genius. It is about a group of war doctors in Korea during the Korean War, and how they use humor and pranks to cope with the horrors of war. It is undoubtedly a comedy, but its comedy great meaning.

I was looking at the movie both with a cinematic eye and a historical eye, because I have to do a presentation on it tomorrow, but in both senses it was pretty brilliant. There were so many incredible one-liners in the movie, and it did an incredible job of skirting the line between flat out comedy and political commentary. It definitely made sure not to hit you over the head with the political commentary, but some of the lines either directly mentioned some of the controversy around both the Korean and Vietnam War, or indirectly but obviously linked to it. The acting was great, it kept me laughing and entertained and also has a lot to say about the culture and attitude of the 1970s.