One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (Part 4)

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One of the key movies of the 1970s, when exciting, groundbreaking, personal films were still being made in Hollywood, Milos Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest emphasized the humanistic story at the heart of Ken Kesey's more hallucinogenic novel. Jack Nicholson was born to play the part of Randle Patrick McMurphy, the rebellious inmate of a psychiatric hospital who fights back against the authorities' cold attitudes of institutional superiority, as personified by Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher).

It's the classic antiestablishment tale of one man asserting his individuality in the face of a repressive, conformist system--and it works on every level. Forman populates his film with memorably eccentric faces, and gets such freshly detailed and spontaneous work from his ensemble that the picture sometimes feels like a documentary.

Unlike a lot of films pitched at the "youth culture" of the 1970s, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest really hasn't dated a bit, because the qualities of human nature that Forman captures--playfulness, courage, inspiration, pride, stubbornness--are universal and timeless. The film swept the Academy Awards for 1976, winning in all the major categories (picture, director, actor, actress, screenplay) for the first time since Frank Capra's It Happened One Night in 1931. --Jim Emerson

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[NIN992]

One of my favorite movies of all time. I had to stay at a mental hospital a couple years ago so this really hits home with me.

[spoutnikboy]

I do agree with you...But I'm kind of shocked that you consider patients as "clients"...

[scrab132]

One of my favorites of all time, so sad that youtube took it down but viewed the total movie elsewhere. Sane once their was the Indian!

[MrLawman10]

next woman who takes me on is gonna light up like a pinball machine and pay out in silver dollars; best line in the film.

[SummertmeBrews]

one of the best movies of all time!

[dreadlegs]

"clients" is just a modern buzzword, if your in the bussiness (mental health, teaching, it doesn't matter) your expected to use them, especially at interviews!. It's bollocks realy, even nthos that use then know that, apart fro managers, whom are wankers anyway.

[FATHOM2356]

An essential skill in both medical Social Work and any medical counseling is empathy; having the ability to relate, feel compassion, dignity, and therefore, empower clients through recognition of their inner strengths.

Ratchet fails to recognize the gift of counseling. Her pompous logic stands on merely ignorance and that is no gift.