A Great Film

Rating: 10/10 (2 July 2008)

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest is a fantastic film, worthy of the awards that it once and Jack Nicholson's best film. It is a deep film that looks at a number of issues, especially mental health and mental care.
The film focuses on Randell (Nicholson), a petty criminal who was in prison for statutory rape and fakes mental illness to what he thinks would be an easy ride in a mental hospital. It is there where he mets the regime of Nurse Ratched (Louise Flecther), who whilst seems nice and fair, runs the ward with an iron fist. Randell also meets up and befriends a number of the patients, who despite saying they are in the hospital by there own free will, are really just institutionalised. Randell decides that he needs to rebel against the system and use the other patients to help him.
This film won all the big five in 1975 and it was the best film that year. I believe that Nicholson and Flecther were the most deserving out of all the Oscars it got. I said it looks into issues of mental health, rebellion (and the ways it can be conducted), failing institutions and tyranny and control. This film could also be seen to be influenced by ideas in sociology and that mental illness is just a label on people, and is made out to be more then what it really is.
This film is a must see, 10 out of 10.