hope...despair...hope?

Rating: 9/10 (7 March 2015)

Cuckoo's Nest fills you with all the awe human hope can give, then it slams its dead remains right in your face, just as you despair it then offers to revive it one more time.
A roller-coaster of emotions, one might say.
I haven't seen Chinatown yet but I've seen a lot of Jack Nicholson and this is my favourite role of his. He plays a believable Jack-the-Lad, the kind you knew at some point in your life: annoying to some, endearing to others. However you viewed the Jack in your life, he always had time for you, perhaps even changed you in some way.
But this isn't just his story, that's the beauty of his character: he has time for everyone and thus you feel the stories of the other characters in that Nest, you might relate with some too, or at least recognise someone.
And Nurse Ratched? If you don't know anything about her character best to stop reading about this film and just watch it.
Undoubtedly the best mental-asylum film ever, without trope...just bags of humanity (all shades of it).