One of the best on anti-establishment

Rating: 9/10 (19 September 2005)

I still remember the night i finished reading 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest', it disturbed me so much that I couldn't sleep well. It hit me really hard like nothing had hit me before. Now, I agree that movie is not as effective as the book but then it is not fair to compare a 300 page book to a 2 hour movie. The characters' inner feelings or inner thoughts for eg, that you can so very well describe in a book gets a little tricky to show in a film. But despite of the intrinsic limitation I think Mr. Forman did a very good job in adapting the book into a movie which is a great movie in every sense.
The story on the surface is about an asylum, a control freak nurse and a rebellious new inmate who doesn't want to conform but below the surface it obviously is about any authoritarian society. Jack Nickolson got an Oscar for his portrayal of rebellious Mcmurphy, a role that was cut out for him. To me, this is one of the best anti-establishment work to have come out during that era.