Masterpiece and courtyard of chaos

Rating: 9/10 (18 May 2018)

Having seen this film when I was a teenager, I remember feeling very sad and oppressed after going out of the cinema with an aunt who absolutely adores films of any genre. At that time my grammar is not even as developed as it is now, but the actors have clearly succeeded in showing me a masterpiece, one that haunts a person forever.
Some thirty years later someone gifted me a 'classics cinema pass ' and decided to see this film once more. It's as disturbing and mind boggling as the first time I saw it. Some scenes will make a person think harder and again and again as if entering a courtyard of chaos and institutionalized yourself. For the simple reason that many of the characters here are to be found in our daily lives. Don't look further as the saying goes ' the only normal people are the ones you don't know that well '.
Jack Nicholson is for me in character, simply the 'Van Gogh of actors' .