One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest is, probably, one of the greatest films of the century. This $4.4 million dollar film was directed by Czech Milos Forman in 1975. The film was made after the producer has read the novel written by Ken Kesey and was impressed very much. However, in case the novel dwells on behalf of as-if deaf mute Indian, the film focuses its attention on Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nickolson), and the Indian keeps silence over the course of the film, as he should do, because he is pretending being a deaf mute. McMurphy goes to a lunatic asylum voluntarily, as he wants to pretend being a madman and avoid going to prison. However, he fails to fit the hospital, as he is too independent, too natural, too free, too noisy, and too irreconcilable. The film is the story of McMurphys struggle.
It is the history of his rebellion against the system that suppresses personality and individuality with no mercy, and at any cost. In the middle of the film McMurphy finds out that all patients, except of him, are in the lunatic asylum on their own volition. Although he understands the misery of the situation, he cannot stop trying to overcome the merciless system. He vexes a nurse, but all he gets is new tortures of medical treatment, up to electroshock therapy. McMurphy acts morally, as he wants to help the patients. He never loses his positivism. When, after the electroshock therapy McMurphy comes back to his room, he smiles that the first women he meets, will sparkle and shine with the lights like a Christmas tree.
The Essay on Stigma in The Film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
... is first evident in the scene where Randle McMurphy drives away in the school bus with his ... existence in the characters of the film. Several scenes in the film are suggestive that the patients in ... Another point that can be drawn from the film is the way, which Nurse Ratched conducts the ... the hospital. Thus, through these examples in the film, it is suggested that individuals admitted to psychiatric ...
In the end of the film McMurphy decides to choke a nurse to death. He understands that hell not succeed, but he wants to try at least. As the film goes to the end, the patients get better and the doctors discharge them. McMurphy was subjected to lobotomy, and Indian breaks out the window and leaves the hospital with McMurphy (although in some sort of an altered mind).
The end of the film catches them at the scene of the road. This is the film about freedom; the freedom of mind; the mental freedom. Nickolson acts perfectly, as usual. The patients of the hospital are also act great, although the vast majority of them are not professional actors, but real patients in a real lunatic asylum, where the film was shot.
I would recommend watching the film, as it is a real must see..
