Would have been good if...

Rating: Null/10 (3 May 2000)

Well, this film would have been good if it went under a different title. The book was filled to the edges with symbolism, depth, and serious points to be made. The film showed the events that happened in the book, not the points. It only show the major events at that. R.P. McMurphy was a young fighter with large flaming red sideburns, swelling arms with huge tatoo's. The movies Mac was a tired looking Jack Nicholson. The narrator, Chief Bromden was a minor character whose past and mind was neglected. Big Nurse, Nurse Ratched did not have the Combine. There was a Chinese author whose name slips me now; He was an anarchist (that has nothing to do with him. Anyways...)who wrote about communism and how it should tumble and fall. His book was turned into a film. When this happened, the film was pro communism and the plot fought dissidents who were against it. I think the same thing happened here. The book was so well thought out, that everything had 3 meanings, every paragraph could be turned into an essay and every thing about it was zen:every place had it's thing and everything was in it's place. Example: Randle Patrick McMurphy-R.P.M.(fast, energetic)-Revolutions per minute (constantly fighting the combine) and Kesey picked the three names of R.P. McMurphy because they stand for something like, young, rebel, natural born fighter. Read the book, it'll do you good. Peace