Disliked Both Ward and McMurphy, Liked the Film

Rating: 6/10 (22 February 2018)

The ward this film was based on had Ratched who was too cold and ineffective as a nurse. Her eyes scared me more than reassured me there was safety. This does not make the ward seem like a safe place to me. So, the red flag is being raised a certain level.
Now, for Randle McMurphy. He knows he is contemptible but continues on to use people for his amusement. So, he is considered an antihero of this film instead of one that tries to "fight the system" of the ward effectively to me. He is no Martin Luther King, Jr. in my eyes.
Overall, I found myself resiliently liking this film because of how Jack Nicholson can pull off his jerk attitude but in an impressive way. Of how some of the patients in the ward were there via consent. Of how those same patients could have some party fun, though it is probably not acceptable in ward situations in modern time or other times. And of how Chief was the true hero of this film. Chief saved people from McMurphy and McMurphy from his vegetable hell from the lobotomy. People don't give the Chief character enough credit to me.
If you want me to be completely honest, I feel the lobotomy that was done to McMurphy was a tasteless move. You can't stop a natural sociopath from being a natural sociopath unless you turn them into a vegetable.