Hospital Hospital is an observational documentary by Frederick Wiseman; it explores the on goings of people working in a large city centre hospital.

The audience are made to focus on the standard of care for the patients. We as the audience arent forced into an opinion by the filmmaker who takes a neutral view and is simply observing the situation. The first scene we see is of a man on the ground in obvious pain being dragged to a seat by a three doctors, considering their occupation you would thoroughly expect the doctors to take much greater care but they are quite the opposite and tell him to get up and walk and asking him dont you know how to sit down yet, these derogatory insults portrayed a negative image of the hospital. We then see a close up shot, it shows that the mans trousers have been put on back to front, he wouldnt have done this because of how unwell he is so it would have been done by a nurse, the whole hospital is now being negatively shown. The man is then tied to a chair as if he was a prisoner in the hospital, the main tying him up hits him in the back of the head and the man is defenceless. The next scene shows another doctor talking to a woman as if he is looking down on her, he grabs at her wrists and the woman who is in a clear state of depression was not comforted once. The fact that all the workers at the hospital have been men creates a negative denotation of the gender, they dont see themselves as equal to the patients but of a much higher stature. The next scene originally juxtaposes the previous scene; it shows a doctor saying youre going to be ok and constantly reassuring the patient. The doctor gives him medicine and water and helps him get sick into the bowl. The patient is then left alone with two guards in another room and he starts frequently throw up, this time the patient has no one to care for him, he then asks to be comforted by music and the guard dismisses this, the hospital as a whole now is shown to be of poor standard. Observational documentaries do not force an opinion onto you, they dont use voice overs or interviews to bias the show but often observational documentaries dont need these conventions, it is plain to see what the correct view to take is and it is clear in hospital.