ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
By
Cristiana Leao
The film is about McMurphy and the organisation of a mental hospital. McMurphy was sent to the hospital for the doctors to evaluate if he was healthy or mentally ill. He was supposed to be there for only a few months and then the doctors would decide what to do with him.
When he arrived at the new place he started making friends and tried to show the other patients a different point of view of life, and get them questioning things instead of only following orders. Even the way they played cards became different; they started to bet cigarettes. Another adventure McMurphy was involved in was stealing a boat and taking them fishing.
After this, most of the doctors agreed that McMurphy was normal, but the head nurse, nurse Ratched, asked the doctors for more time to “help” him.
When McMurphy found out that he could stay there forever he decided to escape, but not after a leaving party for his friends, and he gave them a different night! The party was so good that he fell asleep and didn’t leave. In the morning he lost his last chance: because Billy had killed himself, he was so angry with nurse Ratched that he tried to strangle her.
Well, after that he was sent to another ward, they operated on his head and when he returned to his original ward he was just like a vegetable. That’s why the chief killed him and then left. The chief was one of the patients who pretended to be “in a different world” so that no one would bother him. He escaped because he knew that he couldn’t fight nurse Ratched or help the others because in fact, the others were dependent on her.