One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Movie Review)

With its sensitive setting, audiences inevitably make their assumptions before getting deep into the movie. It hits me when it was revealed that many of the patients were in fact voluntary and they were admitted inside the mental institution because as quoted from McMurphy did not have the guts to face the real world. Each of the patients represents a defected part of us and each of them represents something iconic in the society as well. Microsocieties exist in schools, offices and certainly in a mental hospital: black and white, good and bad, and right and wrong. The lines are drawn by us, and I drew mine when Nurse Ratched entered the ward passing by three African American wardens who were mopping the floor in the very first scene. The stratified ward didn't have a place for McMurphy because he was the only free spirit who doesn't try to trap himself in any visible/ invisible wards. It's logical how audiences connect the character McMurphy with Jesus Christ because he showed the other patients a piece of possibility they weren't bold enough to meet even though every bit prepared for it, but he was at last betrayed and was sent to the crucifixion in return. This is definitely one of the best acted American films out there, characters in the movie acted out all the intense emotion intended for the audiences to feel, and expressions and gestures were carried out beautifully to facilitate the plot.

I recognized Danny Devito halfway through the movie from his height.