M*A*S*H

[mellowtigger]

After I got in from the bicycle commute from work today, I took a shower and then walked over to the Heights Theater.  They were doing a special one-night-only viewing of the original MASH movie.  Sometimes these old films bring in a younger 20ish audience, but most of tonight's crowd was older than me.  Perhaps the decade of constant "war" in America makes the younger crowd less interested in the human spectacle of conflict endurance.

It was thoroughly filled with sacrilege, sexism, anti-authoritarianism, frequent laughs, brutal emotions, and plenty of bloody gore.  So of course it was hugely entertaining.  They even managed to cautiously address homophobia and obliquely condemn racism (twice).  The title song included the lyrics about suicide, and it perfectly suited the film.  It was a great movie.

I think I might have seen the movie before, because several scenes were familiar.  I was surprised, though, at how much of it seemed new and shocking.  I hardly noticed it was a whole 2 hours long.

Then, walking back home tonight under the waxing moon in the cloudy sky, I crossed paths on the sidewalk with a small brown rabbit foraging for food.