One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Rating: 4/10 (26 November 2007)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
In the story One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, the author writes about a man named Mc Murphy who tries to trick the system into believing is mentally ill. This man Mc Murphy believes he will be spending the rest of his sentence here, but little does he know that he is in for a rude awakening. At the beginning of the movie the author makes Mc Murphy's character seem somewhat mentally challenged. As soon as he arrives he starts yelling and screaming and his actions bring people to the conclusion that he is mentally sick. The author does a really good job of having the actors play the specific parts they are assigned to. They all play their parts with a lot of emotion bringing the audience to think that they really are sick. When Mc Murphy gets comfortable, he starts to observe and starts to chat with the other patients. The author makes it seem pretty easy to live in a mental hospital. All these patients look pretty normal, but in reality they each have their own individual sicknesses. In the movie the main conflict was with Mc Murphy and nurse Rached. In the movie the groups of patients always have to follow a daily schedule that is provided to them, but Mc Murphy does not agree with this so he decides to try to change their daily schedule. Mc Murphy tries to change the group meeting for another time so they can see the world series and the only way they can do a different activity is that the group has to vote, so Mc Murphy tries to convince them into watching the series, but all of them are scared to speak so he is the only one with his hand raised and of course majority rules. At this point the author makes Mc Murphy seem and act like a child, a child who is trying to convince the other children that it better to see a show than to be in a group talking about something boring. Well Mc Murphy tries it again the following night and this time he does convince others, but he needs one more vote so he can win and watch the World Series. It took him along time to find the final vote, but when he was about to tell nurse Ratched about the vote she said it was over and his time was up. Mc Murphy acts like a child by not giving up and throws a tantrum by acting like he is watching the World Series with his fellow patient friends. The author's purpose was to show a conflict between patient and nurse and that everything is not always okay. Once the doors close no one knows what goes on only the patients, but then again no one will believe them because they are mentally ill.
In the story One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, the author writes about a man named Mc Murphy who tries to trick the system into believing is mentally ill. This man Mc Murphy believes he will be spending the rest of his sentence here, but little does he know that he is in for a rude awakening. At the beginning of the movie the author makes Mc Murphy's character seem somewhat mentally challenged. As soon as he arrives he starts yelling and screaming and his actions bring people to the conclusion that he is mentally sick. The author does a really good job of having the actors play the specific parts they are assigned to. They all play their parts with a lot of emotion bringing the audience to think that they really are sick. When Mc Murphy gets comfortable, he starts to observe and starts to chat with the other patients. The author makes it seem pretty easy to live in a mental hospital. All these patients look pretty normal, but in reality they each have their own individual sicknesses. In the movie the main conflict was with Mc Murphy and nurse Rached. In the movie the groups of patients always have to follow a daily schedule that is provided to them, but Mc Murphy does not agree with this so he decides to try to change their daily schedule. Mc Murphy tries to change the group meeting for another time so they can see the world series and the only way they can do a different activity is that the group has to vote, so Mc Murphy tries to convince them into watching the series, but all of them are scared to speak so he is the only one with his hand raised and of course majority rules. At this point the author makes Mc Murphy seem and act like a child, a child who is trying to convince the other children that it better to see a show than to be in a group talking about something boring. Well Mc Murphy tries it again the following night and this time he does convince others, but he needs one more vote so he can win and watch the World Series. It took him along time to find the final vote, but when he was about to tell nurse Ratched about the vote she said it was over and his time was up. Mc Murphy acts like a child by not giving up and throws a tantrum by acting like he is watching the World Series with his fellow patient friends. The author's purpose was to show a conflict between patient and nurse and that everything is not always okay. Once the doors close no one knows what goes on only the patients, but then again no one will believe them because they are mentally ill.