Awesome Film

Rating: 10/10 (23 May 2013)

I had to live in a state institution for the physically disabled in the 1980s and this film was a favorite of my fellow 'patients' and 'staff'.
Although our 'infirmities' were physical not psychiatric, we related to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The monotonous routine of institutional living, the ways we tried to break routine, the strives against boredom, the political minefields, staff power trips, getting in or out, or getting visitors- we related to this film.
Whichever the institution type (i.e. mental, penal, physical, rehab) this movie portrays the dynamics of folks involved in the institutional environments of it's era to a perfect reflexion.