One flew over the Cuckoo's nest

Genre: Drama
Year of release:1975
Director: Milos Forman

"You're not an idiot. Huh! You're not a goddamn looney now, boy. You're a fisherman!"

One of the best performances by Jack Nicholson. Jack pulls his character off so incredibly well it is worth seeing just for that, this movie reassures me that he is defiantly one of the best actors. When I first watched this movie as per usual I did not see the brilliance in it. The second time was great.

Placed in a mental institution R.P. McMurphy after serving a while in prison R.P. is either crazy or is not and you have to decide. He tries helping people in this institution for instance a mute Indian, know as Chief, to play basketball and various other acts of in my opinion goodness and gives the staff of the hospital a bit of a hard time not that they didn't deserve it. The characters in One flew over the Cuckoo's nest are some of the best I have seen in the end I loved everybody epically McMurphy and Chief. Nurse Mildred Ratched was well played her character was an over controlling (bad word) Louise Fletcher acted the part perfectly.

R.P. McMurphy is one of the best characters of all time a classic character, he is bold, loud, funny and possibly, its up to you truly crazy. But this amazing character would not have been pulled off by anybody, they had to get the living legend Jack Nicholson. Jack played this role very well he held the character on the line of insanity, but at the same time made you think he was a very normal guy, one that well we all know somebody that acts very similarly to R.P. This made the movie better because it means we can all relate to this movie more. R.P. was not a nut he had not completely lost it. I liked how his character helped people like the way he help Chief and Billy and Martini (first time that I thoroughly enjoyed DeVito except maybe L.A confidential) R.P. helped basically every one, this to made you relate more to the movie as he was not some random nut that hates the world, he acts like a nice person one that you or I could meet on a normal day.

Chiefs character was very cool, I love seeing characters develop through a movie. I enjoyed watching him slightly come out of his box, start playing basketball and getting more involved in what was happening around him. Martini was also very good, quite a funny character who would always be on R.P.s side. Who would think DeVito could possibly be cool.

Nurse Ratched was wonderfully played by Louise Fletcher, she was the stereo typical mental institution nurse, very calm and spoke clearly and very softly no matter what the situation. Nurse Ratched to had problems, Ratched was a complete control freak and that would be why she has taken a job like being a nurse in a mental institution. She pushes everyone around and try to control every thing she gets away with because these people are mentally ill, not big enough in their character to stand up to her, even R.P. has a hard time doing this. After a while I hated her just like she was suppose to be hated I could feel the pain of the patients that had to be under her. I wanted to strangle her after a few things that she said and how she said them always so calmly add to the frustration, it seemed almost like she was teasing the patients.

What makes this movie better is it underlying messages which i will learn more about in further research and watching it is basically about politics, Chief could not speak because at the time Native Indians had no voice in politics, the nurse is the government trying to control us all and McMurphy is trying to set us free.

In conclusion this poetic, powerful drama was mint.Some of the worlds greatest characters and the greatest acting by everyone in the cast epically Louise Fletcher and Jack Nicholson. A great and quite deep movie. I have yet to have purchased it but hopefully it will not be long. I am looking forward to watching Amadeus and some of Milos Forman's other pieces of artwork.

9/10