One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

 

I'm watching the film for the second time now. I don't think I saw all of it the first time, just bits but I remember it being a very very good film.

If you don't know the five-oscar-winning film, it stars Jack Nicholson with appearances from the likes of Danny DeVito (who is awesome) and Louise Fletcher (bitch?). 

The film is about a guy who is committed to a mental hospital because of a number of violent altercations which he (Randle Patrick McMurphy) explains were just fights. He also had sex with a 15 year old girl who had told him she was 18 (fair enough?). 

Anyway, Nicholson is a bit of a, let's say, 'rebel' *chortle* and he causes one hell of a ruckus. Nurse Ratched, played by Louise Fletcher will not allow the patients to do anything which varies from their daily routine that she has decided on. She plays classical music overly loudly so that the men cannot talk to one and other without shouting and she seems to want to prevent them from doing anything normal. For example, she stops them from watching a game of baseball, even though McMurphy (JN) manages to get 10 out of the 18 patients to vote 'yes' to watch the game.

Overall, it's a funny, touching and enlightening film about the way people are or were treated in this type of institution until the Mental Health Reform in 1983. Jack Nicholson is amazing as usual. I would enjoy any film he is in but One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of his best.

Just about to watch The Hills Have Eyes: 2, but I doubt it will live up to OFOTCN.