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Title: 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'
Release Year: 1975
Director: Miloš Forman
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Brad Dourif, Danny DeVito, Sydney Lassick, Christopher Lloyd, Will Sampson.
Plot: Trying to avoid prison's hard work, Randle McMurphy enters a mental institution, where he defies the tyranny imposed by nurse Mildred Ratched.
Review: Jack Nicholson is (behind Marlon Brando) one of my favourite actors, due to his versatility and usually mad characters. In 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' he delivers one of his most acclaimed performances in a movie that re-evaluated the treatment that mentally ill people received almost 40 years ago.
The film is led by him and a band of characters, each of them stranger than the previous one, outstanding the work of Brad Dourif as Billy Bibbit, a suicidal patient terrified by both Ratched and his mother.
Billy lives terrified by both his mother and nurse Ratched
And there is where the nurse plays her role; subtly (in her group sessions) she humilliates her patients in order to control and dominate them, making them feel that they possess lesser minds or that they're unable and invalid to have a normal lifestyle by silently annulating them as human beings.
Subtly humilliating her patients in her meetings with them, Ratched imposes a tyranny in the institution. The anti-authoritarian McMurphy quickly becomes her biggest enemy and although she orders his lobotomization, after he tries to strangle her, she loses the powerful and strict tone, losing also part of her authority
As the film goes by, McMurphy encourages his boys to trust in themselves and to seek for a freedom that they've neven seen as possible, especially helping Bibbit and pretended deaf and mute 'Chief' Bromdem with whom he forges an endearing friendship. At the end, Rached uses her power one more time, causing Bibbit to commit suicide and ordering a lobotomy for McMurphy. When 'Chief' discovers this (just when Nicholson's character had given him enough confidence in himself to feel 'as big as a mountain') he strangles her with a pillow in an emotive scene, uncapable to leave him there suffering. Right after that he successfully escapes towards his freedom by breaking a window, finally being the one who 'flew over the cuckoo's nest'.
A strong connetion is made between Nicholson and Sampson's characters. The first one helps the second to feel capable to be free. The second one liberates his mate when he no longer can relase himself
The film is led by him and a band of characters, each of them stranger than the previous one, outstanding the work of Brad Dourif as Billy Bibbit, a suicidal patient terrified by both Ratched and his mother.
Billy lives terrified by both his mother and nurse Ratched
And there is where the nurse plays her role; subtly (in her group sessions) she humilliates her patients in order to control and dominate them, making them feel that they possess lesser minds or that they're unable and invalid to have a normal lifestyle by silently annulating them as human beings.
Subtly humilliating her patients in her meetings with them, Ratched imposes a tyranny in the institution. The anti-authoritarian McMurphy quickly becomes her biggest enemy and although she orders his lobotomization, after he tries to strangle her, she loses the powerful and strict tone, losing also part of her authority
As the film goes by, McMurphy encourages his boys to trust in themselves and to seek for a freedom that they've neven seen as possible, especially helping Bibbit and pretended deaf and mute 'Chief' Bromdem with whom he forges an endearing friendship. At the end, Rached uses her power one more time, causing Bibbit to commit suicide and ordering a lobotomy for McMurphy. When 'Chief' discovers this (just when Nicholson's character had given him enough confidence in himself to feel 'as big as a mountain') he strangles her with a pillow in an emotive scene, uncapable to leave him there suffering. Right after that he successfully escapes towards his freedom by breaking a window, finally being the one who 'flew over the cuckoo's nest'.
A strong connetion is made between Nicholson and Sampson's characters. The first one helps the second to feel capable to be free. The second one liberates his mate when he no longer can relase himself
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