Hospital

MOVIE #1,464 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 03.20.24 𝙳𝙸𝚁𝙴𝙲𝚃𝙾𝚁 𝙵𝙾𝙲𝚄𝚂: 𝙵𝚁𝙴𝙳𝙴𝚁𝙸𝙲𝙺 𝚆𝙸𝚂𝙴𝙼𝙰𝙽 Medical stuff is tough for me to watch: not necessarily the gruesome surgical stuff (though that's no picnic), but the frail, clearly dying people. The helplessness and pain is so sad to see. Wiseman is now 4/4 crafting expert pictures with both rawness and humanity. We glimpse all types of people in distress here: a trans person given a schizophrenia diagnosis, people scared they have cancer, and numerous alcoholics and junkies (and one beatnik kid on a bad mescaline trip). The pain we inflict on ourselves to feel something other than being alive. There’s battles with administration and insurance, as well (times have changed but our healthcare system has always been a mess). It’s not about that, though. The focus always comes back to these patients and the people caring for them. All of his essential films have been difficult to sit through in a way, but this was the hardest.

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Hospital is an 84-minute 1970 American documentary film directed by Frederick Wiseman, which explores the daily activities of the people at Metropolitan Hospital Center, a large-city hospital in New York City, with emphasis on its emergency ward and outpatient clinics. It was released on February 2, 1970.