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Summary: BEST EVER!
Review: Not much to say. This is the greatest movie ever!
It shows in a good way how we all just want to be free.
It's both funny and sad.A must see for everyone!
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Summary: We need more films like this...
Review: In this hi tech day and age, I wish some of the directors and writers creating all these FX heavy movies would watch Cuckoo's Nest to learn that FX don't really matter; what you need are interesting deep well-defined HUMAN characters for your HUMAN audience to latch on to and identify with. Aside from some minor bloodshed during a brawl and a patient's death, there are no real "effects" to be found in this movie except of course the effect of Nicholson in what must be one of his many top performances as RP MacMurphy. The movie shifts the focus from Chief's pont-of-view narrative to a broader look at all the patients, and it works incredibly well. It was a smart move on Forman's part because a 100% faithful adaption of the novel would have been either impossible or not interesting to anyone. Favorite scenes: when they are voting on changing the work schedule to watch a World Series game and Chief raises his hand to get a majority vote, the fishing trip, the group session when MacMurphy says to the others, "what do you think you are, crazy or something? Well you're not!" It's such a triumphant movie on so many levels, how this free-spirited fighter comes into this world of oppressed figures and lifts them up, teaching them how to be proud and have faith in themselves. So moving it nearly makes you cry.
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Summary: best
Review: I saw this film when I was 14 age old in 1987 in Czechoslovakia in communist area. I don't know why (I am not patriot), but this film is best film for me until now and I believe forever. This film, the only one until now, knock-outed me for a few days, I must think about it all the time. This film has many levels, point of view, many symbols. In 1987 I felt (without ability to understand why) that this film is especially about ME. For me BEST film. Forever.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: Jack Nicholson delivers the best performance I have ever seen in this masterpiece. The supporting actors and actresses are excellent as well. The film's comedy keeps the entertainment value high throughout, although the underlying themes are anything but humorous. Many classic scenes abound, such as the fishing trip, the basketball game, and one of the best endings in cinematic history. I found myself more and more emotionally involved with the characters as the film progressed, with the ending provoking a deep emotional experience not achieved by many other films. If you're a fan of character development, great performances, and psychologically impacting films, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is a must-see.
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Summary: Unforgettable.
Review: I can't remember the name of the guy I saw this with in the theater in the 70's, but I'll never forget this film. It had me laughing, yet deeply disturbed at the same time. A true classic from a time when many people still said, "Jack Who?"
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Summary: Excellent, Powerful
Review: This film has an all-star cast and a great director Milos Forman. Jack Nicholson is superb as the loud mouth McMurphy. Louise Fletcher plays in my opinion one of the most evil characters ever to grace the silver screen. Not to mention all the other great actors that played the patients on the ward. Forman creates a world that is bleak and structured by nurse Ratchet. The set and costumes are all dull and sedated. This film is excellent and the ending and story are powerfull.
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Summary: Jack Nicholson didn't win the Oskar for nothing!
Review: One flew over the cuckoo's nest is unquestionably one of the best movies ever made. The great book become an unbelieveably great movie that you mustn't miss. Jack Nicholson, even though was much younger, gives an unbelieveably performance that no actor ever gave on Holleywood. After you see this movie, you know for sure that Nicholson didn't get the Oskar on it for nothing.
So if you haven't seen it - Buy it right now because you're missing one of the best things that ever happend to Holleywood. If you've already seen it, buy it because it something to you must have at home. Do yourself a favour and don't think twice.
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Summary: Jack Nicholson's Best Known
Review: Great Story with great cast, some are crazier than others. One of my favorite older movies. It's a classic. Evryone knows about movie not half as many ever heard of book or Ken Kesey.Shows strong friendship and curage. Mostly about Heros. Here McMurphy is our hero. A must see, even for younger viewers.
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Summary: ONE OF THE FINEST FILMS EVER!!!
Review: 1975's ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST swept the academy awards. Winning several awards including Best Actor(Jack Nicholson) and Best Picture. This film is without a doubt one of the greatest movies of the century. Yes ladies and gentlemen it is that good! Nicholson plays Randle Patrick McMurphy. At first his character comes off as a horrible person. He's rude, obnoxious, lazy and he constantly rebels against authority.However when he is sent to a mental institution for examing,
he touches the lives of several depressed mental patients. Unfortunetly his entertaining these patitents upsets the hospital workers [especially the unlikeable nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher)] and gets him into big trouble. With an all-star cast of Jack Nicholson, Louise Flectcher, Christopher Llyod, Danny Devito and several others, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST is a movie that will continue to touch the lives of milions for years to come!
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Summary: A Christian Perspective
Review: I read an article the other day by an evangelical theologian in which he lambasted Harry Potter, suggesting as one of his chief criticisms that Potter was a 'morally ambiguous' character and therefore unsuitable. What amazed me is that he seemed ignorant of the fact that every story thrives on those sorts of ambiguities, not least the story of the Bible which, I suggest, offers very few characters who could serve as role models without qualification. Might I mention Moses, Esther and David as just three 'morally ambigious' characters (and heroes, at that) of the Old Testament. I mention this because I can imagine (and I think I recall actually hearing) 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' being rejected by a Christian critic on precisely those grounds. Randle P. McMurphy is rebellious, licentious and from a Christian perspective, immoral. He is a violent criminal, a rapist, and yet he emerges as the hero out of this tale of a man's struggle against the establishment. McMurphy finds himself fighting against an institution which imprisons its members within a regime designed only to make them conform and serve the interests of the institution, though ostensibly for the wellbeing of the members; a regime kept alive by depriving the members of the truth about who they are; a regime in which dependency and conformity are maintained through deception and indoctrination. It was in the day when Erving Goffmann published his famous sociological study, 'Asylums,' that 'Cuckoo's Nest' had its genesis, though the film's comment goes beyond criticising merely mental institutions and their inhumane treatment of human beings. It is a vigorously anti-establishment film which rails against injustice and oppression by showing us a man's attempt to escape conformity, however ambiguous some of his actions might be when viewed in a moral light. But so compelling is the portrayal of life in a mental institution that one can scarcely ignore the warnings the film has for society. People - in fact, Christians - need to pay attention. I suspect that Christian critics who have found rape, violence and attempted murder (rightly) distasteful and rejected this film on that basis, have shot themselves in the foot. For whilst there is uproar about McMurphy's failings and the wrongness of his rebellious ways, a very revealing fact emerges. Why no uproar over the equally morally ambigious (and objectionable) character of Nurse Ratched? Why do the same critics not rally against her failings and the wrongness of her manipulative and malicious schemes which, ultimately, have far more disastrous consequences than McMurphy's actions (namely, Billy's death and McMurphy's labotomy)? The answer is that she belongs to the system, that she is middle-class, respectable, that she has authority, and therefore it scarcely occurs that we ought to be questioning her moral culpability or otherwise. Therein lies the revealing fact: that the evangelical critic has his agenda shaped far more by the system of this world - dare I say it, by the middle classes, even - than by honest, unbiased reflection. So I do not say that the moral tone of the film is pleasant. But I do suggest that in the end Nurse Ratched comes out by far the more guilty of the two main protaganists, and this ought to prompt the Christian critic to ask what the film might have to say about the way society is ordered - even if it makes him a little uncomfortable about some of his less defensible presuppositions.
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