Tonight I watched a movie which is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In this movie Jack Nicholson is starring with the character R. P. McMurphy. There is a mental hospital and in this hospital there are many patients with different psychological problems. McMurphy, who fakes to be "nuts" gets shocked when he sees the way patients obey the hospital managment. In his mind he knows that the order in the hospital will not do any good for the patients and he starts an uprising. For example in the scene where he bets others that he can escape from the hospital he tries to show other patients that there is an other way. Although he fails in this attempt he leaves the scene with the words " At least I have tried..." As he tries to break the "daily routine" of patients he get some new enemies like nurse Ratched. Doctors and nurses try to "help" McMurphy to get in to the "routine". The question, which the audience should be asking at the end of the film "How can we claim that those who decide, who is normal and who is not, is "normal" indeed?
102-14. Our Blogging Queen
14 years ago
This is a wonderful film, based on an even more wonderful novel by Ken Kesey, which I highly recommend reading if you like the film.
ReplyDeletemy friend read the novel and told me, too, that the novel is much more wonderful than film. I will read =)
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