Hospital

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Audience Member Probably the most intense showing of hospital-life ever recorded. It saddens because it forces you in the room with the doctors, and the patients. No side is excluded. "Hospital" is a dark, scary tour of something so real to everyone. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Frederick Wiseman's "Hospital" is a great fly on the wall documentary (as is his style) that showcases many lives of doctors, nurses and patients in a urban hospital. The sad lives of these patients is incredible when you see it all strung together like this. If I learned anything from this film, it is that I could never work in a hospital. The film may be old, but the issues it touches on are still fairly relevant and hold up well. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Harrowing documentary about the facelessness of the modern American health system. The power of this film comes from Wiseman's camera, he captures every detail of the patients in their interactions with the doctors, and you have no choice but to scrutinise something that you might very well turn away from in real life. it is a deep and thoughtful film; we find that we empathise with the patients (and also some of the staff) and also find ourselves back in cintact with the basic material of our lives. Despite accusations of bias, the film is open-ended and draws no conclusions of its own, as whatever your views going into the film, the film is likely to affirm them. The only truly objective thing that Wiseman wishes to express is the good will of a proportion of the staff; the hospital may seem horrific, but you come away from the film remembering the humanity that exists there. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member I think you'd have to be emotionally connected to the characters in order to get something out of this sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious Wiseman doc that Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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