2 kinds of madness

Rating: 8/10 (22 July 2007)

The film tried to present the madness in 2 ways: one of them is in a common view, which is sent to the madhouse, due to their mentally disable; while the other is that like the character of Mc Murphy (acted by Jack Nicholson), who got passed in the mental test, but having some extreme and abnormal behavior.
Those two manners, also to be discriminated by the society, needed to have a mutual support to each other. Their group power tried to challenge the absolute authority (the celebrities include the chief of nurse, and the doctor of the madhouse). The patients are like to be jailed, without any right that normal guy should have: no sex, no option for taking medicine, and no chance to watch the ball game due to the fixed rule of the house. They are just children to be taught, any action which is treated as an abnormal (in the view of madhouse operators) will be punished. Is it really being an ideal place for them to recover? Or even be suppressed?
The story tend to let us get the deny answer of this. Self-treatment is better and so Mc Murphy introduced all of the patients to the fish boat owner as Dr. A, Dr. B..when they were escape for their vacation. Besides that scene, another points for supporting mutual healing or self-healing could also been found by Mc Murphy speech to the chief (ask him try to play basketball. Of course, it was a surprise that the chief had no mental disability when the movie was going on) Such encouragement had 2 purposes: 1st point was to show the magic held by another mad man, who could heal the self-closing chief, as all of the doctors in the house have already given up to do so; 2nd thing was more important, it was the clue to guide the ending of the story.
The story completed in the way that changing impossible to possible. Mc Murphy was the leader to emphasize the spirit of trying. He knew the washing tray was heavy enough for him, but still tried to move it. Also, he usually persuaded the patient to escape; it actually means the continuous spirit for fight to the destiny, the power and the guys who discriminate them. No one can tight them, as ling as they were willing to turn them down. The chief had done it and escaped away. Is his freedom good for him? Not really, he may fail to adapt the environment and got dead. But who know else? At least he got a new live rather than a ridiculous survive in the routine jail house, even it is more dynamic.