A good example of how to create a real movie...

Rating: Null/10 (4 October 2004)

Milos Forman directed this movie in 1975. In this film it breaks down the acting to psychological levels, giving the audience a mixed message to think about what these characters are doing. The message is 'what is real and what is not real'. The characters are method actor's becoming the role of their character but it does not stop there. The actor's are also revealing to the audience within the movie that they are faking their insanity. This effect has repercussions to the viewer, diluting the stereotype of people and plants the notion to the viewer, what is real? Shakespeare brought to are attention centuries ago, 'All the worlds a stage, the men and woman are merely players.' This quote pertains to 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' for the shear fact that we do not always no who is telling the true. And what we perceive people to look like and act a certain way are not always true of who they really are. I will explain the scene were Mac discovers for the first time that many people are lying about their mental illness. It starts in the hospital with nurse, Mildred Ratched and nurse Itsu. They are starting a meeting in group therapy. Mac has been busting nurse Ratched balls for a week. Mac raises a question about when he can leave and finds out that he is unable to because he is a criminal but 3 people in the group out of the 4 can leave at there own will but just choose not too leave the mental-institution. Mac says something to the effect that Billy, Martini, Doc and Harding have been letting him bust nurse Ratched's balls, and that they knew Mac was not able to leave because he is a convict. The reason Mac is in this institution is because he was acting and lying to get out of work detail.
I think Billy committed suicide because nurse Mildred Ratched is dangerous to Billy because she is a friend with Billy's mother. She exploited his mother against Billy whenever he disputes her. In Billy's eye he sees himself as a boy not a man. One reason is a man would be called Bill. Another is Billy cannot do wrong in fear of disappointing his mother because he is a mommas boy. And now that Billy has had sex, which is one of societies acts of becoming a man, and the total fear of Billy's mother finding out that he is a man now. Because the nurse says she will not keep quiet. Billy feels that he has no way out but to kill himself.
The character Chief is acting and lying to every one, as a deaf-mute but more than half way through, we the audience discovers he was just lying. We find this out in the scene where Mac and Chief were sitting on a bench in the hallway to get electric-shock-therapy for acting out. This is the first time Chief speaks in the film when Mac offers Chief a stick of juice-fruit gum. Chief take one and says 'Thank you'. Mac is astonished and shocked that he has been faking being a deaf-mute all this time. From here on out Mac and Chief have made a bond to stick together to get out of this place and go to Canada. In retrospect, what is making these characters lying to just about everyone? Faking symptoms just to get attention whether it is negative or positive, it that crazy in itself, or is it just portraying a time is the U.S. when they had no real identification of who is insane and who is not. I think that is the real reason of the film, who is insane and who is faking there is no real way to tell because the mind is so complex is it hard to tell real from imaginary.