Psychological warfare.

Rating: 8/10 (7 October 2013)

I like this film's display of the psychological war between the characters portrayed by Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.Nicholson represents a somewhat bad seed who becomes a hero to the mental patients he joins through a successful attempt to avoid hard labor.Fletcher is Nurse Ratched,a hard nosed and power hungry woman whose actions make her look more like a warden than a nurse.Nicholson soon has his fellow patients experiencing life and feeling better,although perhaps not quite to the point of being cured.Nurse Ratched,with seemingly no interest in the betterment of the patients,but rather seems more interested in keeping them ill to maintain her control over them,sees Nicholson as a threat.The battle is a thing of beauty to watch.