We should take responsibility of our actions

Rating: Null/10 (5 December 2007)

Hollywood has produced different kinds of movies about detectives, wars, love, but there are not many about life in a mental institution. This movie is about a man who is sent to a work farm but tries to fool everybody by letting them think that he is insane so he can go to a mental institution, but at the end everything goes wrong for him. We can see McMurphy as a person who does not like to live by the rules, who wants to do everything his way and does not realize that in this world we should all follow rules. We also see nurse Ratched who is the person who rules the institution and is also an example of the corrupted power of authority. This movie shows the different points of view of McMurphy and nurse Ratched. McMurphy is a man that has been sent to a work farm for a short time, but he decides to let the authorities think that he is insane so he can be transferred to a mental institution where everything should be nicer and easier, When he gets to the mental institution, he meets nurse Ratched who is the person who rules the institution. McMurphy goes against what nurse Ratched says and brakes many rules. McMurphy realizes how nurse Ratched has controlled the minds of the patients and tries to help them out so they can stand by themselves and realize that they are good men and should not be treated the way nurse Ratched treats them. McMurphy is a fun person who brings a lot of happiness to the inmates so they start following him. Later in the movie McMurphy realizes that his plan has backfired on him because now he can no leave this place until nurse Ratched decides he can. McMurphy Finally ends up in vegetative state so his friend chief kills him so he can be free. McMurphy is a character that teaches us a lot of good and bad things but most of them are good. In this movie he teaches us that we should always enjoy life and that we should not feel inferior to other people. This is a man that cares for his friends and helps them to realize that they are good people. Since the beginning of the movie to the end McMurphy catches the audience attention with his way of living life. The bad things that McMurphy shows is that he tries to get the easy way out instead to taking responsibility for what he has done and face his sentence. McMurphy was a symbol of freedom, he did not want any rules but not everything can be done with freedom. We need rules so we can have a better world. Mildred Ratched is the head nurse in a mental institution where she has absolute power over the patients' privileges. She intimidates the patients and treats them bad. Most patients are afraid of her. When McMurphy comes to this mental institution, nurse Ratched tries to make him to submit to her but fails. Nurse Ratched is character that shows how many places can be ruled by a person who can do whatever they want with other people. It shows the corruption of authority that can be found and many places like this mental institution. I believe this is movie that demonstrates that sometimes we do not want to take responsibility of our actions and we try to take the easy way out. Sometimes the easy way out can lead us to something worse. In this movie McMurphy tried to fool everybody but at the end the only person he fooled was himself because he ended up in a vegetative state. I really enjoy watching this movie. From the beginning McMurphy not only gets his friends attention but the audience as well. One can get into McMurphy's character and feel what he feels. At the end the message is really clear. We should take responsibility of our actions.