A sane Madman

Rating: 9/10 (18 January 2017)

The first scene of the movie portrays the most dangerous prison, the mental institution with Miss Ratched as the strictest nurse who can go to any extent to ensure that everything goes according to the laws. But very soon, inside that covered cage comes a free bird who puts up a fight against the world and tries to bring back life from its grave only to make that institution a better and a fairer place. The movie named "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" displays us the fight between a sensible individual and the omnipotent government through the characters of McMurphy and Miss Ratched. McMurphy was sent inside the mental institution after he has pleaded guilty after committing a crime. He is placed under the care of Miss Ratched who only excels in hypotinizing free minds under her evil influence. However, McMurphy always puts up a tough fight against her and questions every rule set by her. But no matter how powerful the arms of the individual it is impossible to lift the immense weight of the myths, government and the nonsensical rules of the society. McMurphy, undeterred by the consequences, goes on fighting till his last breath. But the question is "whether he will be praised as a hero by the people? Or will he be criticized as a man who was foolhardy enough to even have tried fighting the society?" Sadly the answer is that society always wins crushing the people under its foot just like hundred grain of sands are washed under the wave of the sea. The same consequences await McMurphy when iron clubs and electric shocks knock out his life breath, squeeze out the spirit of fight out of him and make him as meek as a horse. However, Chief's breakout portrayed the eventual change which is inevitable and cannot be stopped even by the iron whip of the government. This movie with the use of metaphors is fraught with a very valuable lesson that fighting the all powerful is necessary and must be carried out even though the result is fatal.