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The movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is a story about a criminal named Randle Patrick McMurphy who is transferred to a mental instituion due to his deranged behavior. McMurphy is a charater that is described as an energetic, swaggering, wisecracking, non-conformist, rebellious patient. In the story he pretended to be mental ill in order to get out of the prision he was at for saludatory rape. There in the mental institution he meet some interesting people.
First there is “Chief” Bromden whom the patients described as a "deaf and dumb Indian" "as big as a god-damn tree trunk." Believed by the patients to be deaf and unable to speak, Chief is mostly ignored but also respected for his enormous size. The Chief ultimately becomes his only real confidant, as they both see their struggles against authority in similar terms. Then there is Billy a pathetic, incessantly stuttering, paranoid boychild, who is shy, virginal, impressionable, and deathly afraid of his mother. In Billy, McMurphy sees a younger brother figure whom he wants to teach to have fun. Dale Harding is an ineffectual, rationalizing intellectual who is relatively sane but unable to get over his wife's betrayal and adultery. Martini a short, smiling patient with an immature personality. Finally there is Taber who is a cynical, trouble-making sadist.
One day McMurphy decided to take the boys fishing. This event changed their lives forever. They were able to explore their surroundings and to have a day out of the mental institution. The patients saw the world in a complete new way. Also they experienced for the first time the feeling of working together and happiness that is brought when one catches a fish. At the end they went back to the mental institution but they returned as completely changed people.
This movie captivates the cruel and control setting that is a mental institution. In this movie it is reflected how the patients are unable to make their own decisions and...