Masterpiece of maddness

One flew over the cuckoo's nest (1975)

This is one of the classics of modern cinema and I dare to differ! Jack Nicholson is the saviour of the asylum and the mentor of the mountain of a man, a red Indian, who is the one who eventually flew over the cuckoo's nest without getting caught!

Being a psychiatrist, I deeply identify with the movie and do not find the nurse a tryant at all. Uptill the point where she makes Billy feel guilty of having sex with a woman just to show her dominance. I think that shit was really fucked up! (I must be high to use this language!)

People have raved and raved about this movie, its brilliant scripting and scuptous acting by Jack, so I'm going to talk about something different. How every character in the movie has a different personality disoreder and how it has been flawlessly potrayed in the movie. Nowhere in the movie has a character deviated from acting his disoreder for the sake of the story. The story has not developed characters of its own, but the characters has developed a story of their own. In my point of view, the most important aspect of a film is the storytelling, and this film stands that test with truth, honesty and justice to each character. Even the Indian who kills Jack Nicholson in the end is justified due his disorder of being repressed by the society and chooses to be in eternal solemn of silence forever.

Jack Nicholson is one of the few actors who has a sly / wicked / joyous / playful smile. It can be interpreted in as many ways as the characters that he has potrayed in his inumerable films. This film is all about the array of human personality traits (which are so very well studied in the mentally ill)

It is a masterpiece etched in cinematic history for its paranormal charcterization and its sheer rebellious nature. The modern society is rebellious to its very core, and anything which appeals to this primitive urge of ours is very easily identified with and remembered by us for a very long time to come. So is this movie. Marvelous!

Rate - 4.5/5