Absolutely horrified by its callousness

Rating: 1/10 (13 June 2013)

Finally got around to watching (skimming through is more likely) the movie M*A*S*H. It was a popular TV show in the 70's and even my parents talked about watching the movie version when it was first released. But I was absolutely horrified and disgusted by its cynicism and callousness. There was no plot to the movie at all, and it wasn't funny. Donald Southerland is the farthest from being a funny actor, although he's not a big mouth like Alan Alda. Anybody wishing to be a medical doctor would be disillusioned by the seeming purposelessness of the surgeons working in a mobile army surgical hospital during the Korean War. Furthermore, the lyrics of the opening song shocked me: "suicide is painless. And I can take or leave it if I please." I would understand if these words came out of the mouths of desperate wounded soldiers, but they are not suitable for a drama about army surgeons. In addition, the movie pretends the characters were living in America; there is no mention about Korea even though it takes place in Korea during the terrible tragedies of the Korean War.