Excellent movie...but strangely dated!

Rating: Null/10 (3 July 2003)

"One flew over the Cuckoos Nest" is a definite "MUST SEE" among lovers of the classics and Jack Nicholson!When I first saw it in 1975 it struck a lot of raw nerves in viewers and started a lot of discussions in psychology classes!This was all before the advent of Mental Health Advocacy groups,day-treatment centers,half-way houses,wrap-a-round services,In-home treatment and sheltered workshop training,and ESPECIALLY the closing of most of the state mental hospitals in the USA! In this new mellenium "one flew over the Cuckoos Nest" has become a beautifully filmed story of what life WAS like before psychiatric treatment units began cropping up in nearly every prison! Don't get me wrong!The movie and storyline is worth watching.But we could almost never relate anymore to these characters being placed together in a hospital ward!