What really touched me in this film is the fact that a man that does not really care that much at first, tries so hard to show these people what life is and how to have fun.
It was clear to me from the word go that Nurse Ratched didn't care about the well-being of the other patients. The only thing she cared about was the power that the structure of the institution gave her. The patient's fractured mental state gave her power over them. After Billy gets over his insecurities he gains a tremendous degree of confidence. This confidence threatens the control she has over him so she aggressively tries to break him down again resulting in his suicide.
ABSOLUTELY! & A VITAL WARNING CONCERNING THE INDIVIDUALS WE ALLOW ACCESS INTO OUR LIVES & PERSONAL AFFAIRS. SO MANY FACETS, @ THIS TIME, YOUR COMMENTS LED ME TO A WARNING/CAUTIONARY MESSAGE, ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE TRULY KIND & LOVING TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER, ....OR TRULY THE CATALYST TO DESTROY OTHERS DUE TO THE EVIL/ANTAGONISTIC (often their pretending & hidden but very wicked & TRUE intentions & GOALS TO DESTROY ANOTHER.
@@donniedarkoisthemostunderr4785 trainspotting 2 kinda sucked for how much people were hyping it up saying its a great sequel. And especially since trainspotting was such a great movie with a great ending
What a great place, you have the Joker, Penguin, Uncle Fester, Pluto from The Hills Have Eyes, Chucky & Organ Grinder from Batman Returns....wait a minute, are you sure this is not Arkham Asylum?
My dad had this dvd from a newpaper 10 or so years back. My mom tried to throw it away but my dad refused and said ' we dont throw away movies like these ,they must watch it' . Damn my favorite movie ever with a promise that everyday becomes more important.
I agree, Ratched is almost redeemable until she puts Billy to shame. Mac gives him the chance to be a young man and have some fun. Ratched wants to infantilize Billy -- and the rest of the men -- and rule the roost. Her evil comes through in her vindictiveness. Dr. Spivey deserves a mention too. Ratched has him wrapped around her finger. He exudes kindness, but also blindness. Ratched impresses him with her confidence and competence, but the doctor cannot see Ratched's managerial malignance.
Exactly, she's evil and it's visible from. The start but we're constantly giving her the benefit of the doubt because it seems like she has the capacity to see. It's once she destroys Billy that it becomes clear that she is well aware of what she's doing and that it's not about the benefit of the patients or the order. It's all about her being the ultimate controller of others. If it were inquisition times, she would have been the one deciding people's destinies and torturing them to death. Bend to me or die is her worldview. Nothing redeemable about her and disturbing once it becomes apparent because it also makes you feel disgusted about yourself and giving her any benefit of the doubt before.
😎 I agree with you. The failure of the administration to really see that unchecked power to people creates Mosalinis, Napoleon's and sick Doctors that have a God complex. 😎
I'm surprised the review does not cover the 'baseball game' scene. To me, that is by far the best scene in the entire movie, and shows us how McMurphy can triumph over Nurse R even from his position as a 'captive'. The way he narrates the non-existent game, staring at the blank TV screen, brings tears to my eyes every time, and we get to see a ruffled Nurse R for the first time.
The actor Will Sampson who played “Chief Bromden”, is the man I’m named after. He and my father went to Santa Fe Art College together and were best friends... great analysis by the way.
Hi Sampson, so nice to read your comment-I knew Sonny personally and I know exactly why you were named after him- I know first hand what a beautiful, loving soul Sonny was and what a blessing he was to everyone who knew him. In case you are interested I have a video on youtube in memory of Sonny that I made with great love to honor him and to commemorate the anniversary of his passing on June 3. You can google Remembering Will Sonny Sampson Jr. if you'd like to watch it. I hope people will think it does him justice and reflect on what a gift he was to this world. Be well Sampson! Ginny Sun-hair
words can't describe the joy i just felt when i opened CZcams and saw that my favourite movie critique just reviewed one of my all time favourite movies.
I just watched this movie for the first time and absolutely loved it, I love Jack Nicholson in this movie and how he always try to cheer everyone up and have fun, in the end they all develop a great friendship
I remember the very first time (of many) I saw this movie. What stuck with me was Jack Nicholson use facial expressions during the point in which he gets a hooker for one of the young patients. You see only Jack's face has he slowly shifts from satisfaction to dis-satisfaction to anger to confusion....all without saying a word. Brilliant! Thank you for the video!
I literally just watched it again and thought the exact same thing during that scene. Doesn’t say a word, but his facial expressions are great. Mischievous, introspective, satisfied with what he’s done and melancholy. Superb
This is my favorite movie ever, and I am now lucky enough to teach the novel and movie to my high school classes. It is also about man's place in nature, and how we have lost it - a key belief of the psychedelic era, of which Kesey is a major figure. This is why Chief is the perfect narrator. He comes from a reservation, is sent to war (the greatest destructive machine society has ever created) and ends up in a mental ward. It is not until McMurphy comes on the ward that he starts looking outside of the ward - literally - to see animals in nature and the life he could have if he were to reenter nature. In the book it is developed through the machine imagery used to describe Ratched and the institution vs. the nature imagery of outside the hospital, such as geese flying, a dog loping across the hospital grounds, and ultimately the fishing trip, on which the men see their place in nature and return changed.
Hey Charels, do you upload your lessons for this film / novel anywhere? Would love to break down the film but just don’t know where to start, let me know, thanks :)
@@JacksMovieReviews My pleasure Jack! I would like to hear your thoughts about other Nicholson classics that you have not covered yet. He is one of my favorite actors, bar none.😊😎
Now all the patients know the real her and she lost her strong voice from Mcmurphy's attack. Also, Mcmurphy could of left but instead of hopping out to freedom he turned around to check on Billy because he really did care about them.
Its Thomas Pollock here- Fantastic analysis as always Jack! This is one of my favourite films of all time- a top 10 contender easily. It was nice to see your approach here through the lens of simply looking at the elements of conflict. Its such a layered piece of work so it was nice to see you not dive into the social and political issues it conveys and focus on simply how well the film is constructed in terms of story. Sorry to hear you wont be doing anymore analysis videos, but I understand!
Great movie. Perhaps one of Jack N's finest acting. Surely a great story. Hard to believe that they actually did labotomies. Such a radical treatment. One of my favorite movies with a dynamic story line.
I saw the movie for the first time recently. To me, there are a ton of parallels between this film and the Shining. They both have Jack Nicholson entering the hospital or hotel via a long drive through an idyllic natural landscape . He thinks he can bend the hotel/hospital to his will but he ends up losing his mind. Scatman Crothers is also in both films. The Native American subtext is also present in both. I couldn’t find any CZcams videos talking about the interrelationship of these two films but to me it seems so obvious.
In one class that discussed this, the prof said she showed this to students in Germany who didn't like the ending. They felt chief should have saved others as well, not just himself. Interesting how different cultures view the world.
Germans being as they are, I'm surprised they weren't annoyed with McMurphy and agreeing that there must be order. That's my experience of an average German.
Great review as always, Jack! When I watched the movie (some time ago), thought that I need to hear your thoughts on this classic! Pleeease review Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri! It's a fantastic movie about anger issues, attitude and consequences :)
I have heard great things about this movie and I need to check it out. Other than that, great essay. It’s really sad that the director, Milos Foreman, passed away last year. RIP Milos.
I remember arguing with a fellow educated fellow who I was debating with, what was the best movie of all time. I told him my favorite movie was John Boorman's Excalibur. He scoffed. I told him, though the best movie I ever seen was One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. He just nodded in agreement.
I loved the movie. Jack Nicholson light it up! But the book is also brilliant the book is even deeper and stronger in its concept that the authority must be questioned.
No back story was given in the film to explain the men. Absent that back story, its just a story about a rebel. The book actually offered some back story
What I now think of is that this movie led almost directly led to the shut down of mental institutions across the country. Today, unless a mentally ill person agrees to the little care they might be able to receive, they often end up on the street. Many use street drugs. So, are they better off now? But at least they are free to live in horrible conditions and die on the streets.
Great movie. The only downside is that, in part, this movie brought about the end of “insane” asylums. Many people are homeless on the streets now who would be safer and better off in a modern mental health facility.
Nice! However I also caught a political meaning overlapping order vs freedom. Keeping in mind that Forman's previous movies in the Czech New Wave are very political, the bird (a cockoo?) on the barbed wire hints to the berlin wall. In addition, there is a scene on tv with a debate on iron curtain. I would not be surprised to analyze many details in this context (baseball on tv, confiscated cigarettes, the patients becoming aware of their condition, etc)
I wonder if this was one of the reasons Ronald Regan closed the mental asylums in the 1980,s, because before seeing this movie my grandmother told me there were many horror stories of testing and experiments on patients at the Red Wing Minnesota asylum that scared the shit outta me at the age of 8 to know that was going on. She told me many Asylums mistreated patients horrible. A couple years later I seen it on HBO and was shocked, sad, hateful of Nurse Ratchet and joyful for Big Chief! Everytime i drove through RedWing I got a nasty feeling about me when I would see that old asylum building on top of the bluff/hill/Cooley Mountain. I think it’s been torn down now
Either you watched another movie or you re 15. He hated her from the beggining and you could teel she was a despicable piece of shit from the opening scene
I've always liked this movie and what's not to like? The story starts off kind of light, is always entertaining but gets more compelling as it goes on via what-will-McMurphy-do-next? It's both well cast and well acted; each scene is fun to watch and the longer ones are even better as you watch them develop. You're right on about the structure vs. chaos theme. As the two heavyweights, RP and Nurse Ratched take each other on but it's not a good vs. bad scenario and not a clear winner. Mac dies but he was the kind of person who would never figure like out. Ratched gets to live on but has to go back to her duties with visible battle scars and others knowing that her comments to Billy caused his suicide. Again, not a clear winner. We're all complex folks and both Mac and Ratched have good and bad sides to them. Mac is basically a loser that can't get is life in order in spite of being really funny and kind of a 'good guy.' Ratched is basically a good person but can be petty and officious whenever she wants to be. When I first got into The Simpsons, I saw Bart in the same vein as RP..."I do what I want, when I want." This is a fun movie to watch with a friend or two and then talk about what it all really means. Thanks for this review!
Doing your job doesn't excuse horrible actions. Nazis were just doing their job but at a point you have to say no when you're having a negative impact on other's lives
Do you believe that McMurphy is really a vegetable at the end? A lot of people think he’s faking it again. Chief puts the pillow over his face to smother him and put him out of his misery. But what if McMurphy isn’t comatose? What if he was faking it again? You can see McMurphy really fighting hard to stop Chief. Next time you watch the film just imagine that he’s faking it. It’s even more tragic and tough to watch.
I've just seen the movie and I don't believe that happened. The two of them make deep connection and after the electroshocks McMurphy gives the chief a sign, I think he would've do the same if he could. At first I thought I might just be the medications but then I saw the scars on the head and realize that they messed with his brain. The fact that he struggle while been suffocated might be just the basic instinct of a living been trying to live. But that's just my thought.
After any person has a lobotomy there is so little of the previous "self" left. He wouldn't have enough of himself left to joke round that way, if he even would even remember the previous joke at all. The instinct that all living things have to survive kicked in when he would have been gasping for air under the pillow. The sad thing is once somebodies had a lobotomy thats it for them you can pretty much call them gone. The Chief knew this and wouldn't let the shell of his friend carry on once all his life and "self" had been extinguished.
EneMye but that’s not what happened to him the first time they shocked him. He was fine. Why are you so sure that the second time was worse? Nothing in the film shows that the second time they do it to him is worse. We only think so because McMurphy is acting like a vegetable. But he was acting like that the first time too. Just acting. When the Chief smothers him, McMurphy fights back pretty hard. Would someone who was truly lobotomized fight like this? Probably not. But a man who was joking would act this way. I’m not saying I necessarily believe this theory. But I find it interesting
Silver Game Dog Yeah it’s totally different, people can receive ECT numerous times and make almost full recoveries. Usually a bit of memory loss but it’s rare for any amount of ECT to turn anyone into a zombie. The second time we see the scars on his head. The scars are in the exact place where they make the incisions to remove the frontal lobe from the rest of the brain. This is the difference and why he isn’t faking it the 2nd time. It is surprising the amount with which he fights back against the chief but I guess the answer to that is not to underestimate the fight for life from any living being. In a lobotomised state you probably wouldn’t put together that you were being murdered, you would probs just be struggling for air. There’s a similar situation in Betty Blue if you’ve ever seen that.
It would be way more savage if he was but that really isn’t the story. The chief sees the scars from the lobotomy and knows that his friend is half gone and wouldn’t wanna live that way. But even in that state you would still fight for air. It’s instinct. I just googled it to see if I could try and verify and apparently this is this seen as the “official” ending. Though it’s art so if ppl wanna see it differently then why not I guess _/(“,)\_
Oh dear. She does not care for the patients how could you say that!. She cares for order and control. She is a classic control freak. This book/film is about matriarchal tyranny.
I saw this movie for the first time tonight, as we rented it. It was 1970s slow. I failed to see the greatness in it. Nothing that clever. I never really had a good time watching at any point. I must remember academy awards are often given for reasons other than entertainment. I must also realize Hollywood values aren't my values.
Your initial understanding of nurse Ratchet, in my opinion, is completely wrong. Nurse Ratchet demonstrates an underlying cruelty which is synonymous with narcissistic personality disorder. Nurse Ratchet is a malignant narcissist. l was married to one and unfortunately the traits and behaviour are extremely familiar to me.
So well said! She is the biggest piece of shit in movie history. Up there with the warden from shawshank redemption and that turd that didnt wet the sponge in the green mile, but at least they got theirs
What really touched me in this film is the fact that a man that does not really care that much at first, tries so hard to show these people what life is and how to have fun.
i’ve never cried in a movie before but damn this one and good will hunting are the only movies that gave me a desire to cry as soon as i finished them
Many movies teach people how to have fun but not this one.
It was clear to me from the word go that Nurse Ratched didn't care about the well-being of the other patients. The only thing she cared about was the power that the structure of the institution gave her. The patient's fractured mental state gave her power over them. After Billy gets over his insecurities he gains a tremendous degree of confidence. This confidence threatens the control she has over him so she aggressively tries to break him down again resulting in his suicide.
this is what i was looking in the comments
exactly
maybe she thinks she cares about them, but she really doesn´t.
after all the best villains are the ones who think they´re good
@@molotovmafia2406 I think that's almost certainly the case.
ABSOLUTELY! & A VITAL WARNING CONCERNING THE INDIVIDUALS WE ALLOW ACCESS INTO OUR LIVES & PERSONAL AFFAIRS. SO MANY FACETS, @ THIS TIME, YOUR COMMENTS LED ME TO A WARNING/CAUTIONARY MESSAGE, ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE TRULY KIND & LOVING TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER, ....OR TRULY THE CATALYST TO DESTROY OTHERS DUE TO THE EVIL/ANTAGONISTIC (often their pretending & hidden but very wicked & TRUE intentions & GOALS TO DESTROY ANOTHER.
Thank you so much for sharing!
its so weird seeing danny devito look like this after currently binging its always sunny
He's hard to recognize!
yes! the first time i watched it i didn’t even realize it was him until i saw his name in the credits
@@richardjohnson8294 same for Christopher lloyd.
So weird for me seeing Danny Devito beyond 1989 for me.
That's exactly what I did
One of the best films ever, would love to see a video on Trainspotting
Very possibly!
Have you seen trainspotting 2?
@@donniedarkoisthemostunderr4785 class film
@@donniedarkoisthemostunderr4785 trainspotting 2 kinda sucked for how much people were hyping it up saying its a great sequel. And especially since trainspotting was such a great movie with a great ending
Jack Nicholson has such star presence in this film.
What a great place, you have the Joker, Penguin, Uncle Fester, Pluto from The Hills Have Eyes, Chucky & Organ Grinder from Batman Returns....wait a minute, are you sure this is not Arkham Asylum?
Holy shit you're right 😂
Don’t forget the crazed “GET OWFFF MY TRAAAIINN!” Ghost guy.
Jw Nj I knew that weird looking guy was from The Hills Have Eyes!
A ward specifically for method actors who take their craft a bit too seriously.
My dad had this dvd from a newpaper 10 or so years back. My mom tried to throw it away but my dad refused and said ' we dont throw away movies like these ,they must watch it' . Damn my favorite movie ever with a promise that everyday becomes more important.
I agree, Ratched is almost redeemable until she puts Billy to shame. Mac gives him the chance to be a young man and have some fun. Ratched wants to infantilize Billy -- and the rest of the men -- and rule the roost. Her evil comes through in her vindictiveness. Dr. Spivey deserves a mention too. Ratched has him wrapped around her finger. He exudes kindness, but also blindness. Ratched impresses him with her confidence and competence, but the doctor cannot see Ratched's managerial malignance.
Exactly, she's evil and it's visible from. The start but we're constantly giving her the benefit of the doubt because it seems like she has the capacity to see.
It's once she destroys Billy that it becomes clear that she is well aware of what she's doing and that it's not about the benefit of the patients or the order. It's all about her being the ultimate controller of others. If it were inquisition times, she would have been the one deciding people's destinies and torturing them to death.
Bend to me or die is her worldview. Nothing redeemable about her and disturbing once it becomes apparent because it also makes you feel disgusted about yourself and giving her any benefit of the doubt before.
@@Luka_menorykee I agree. Unfortunately, the mental health field is full of real life Nurse Ratcheds!
😎 I agree with you. The failure of the administration to really see that unchecked power to people creates Mosalinis, Napoleon's and sick Doctors that have a God complex. 😎
I'm surprised the review does not cover the 'baseball game' scene. To me, that is by far the best scene in the entire movie, and shows us how McMurphy can triumph over Nurse R even from his position as a 'captive'. The way he narrates the non-existent game, staring at the blank TV screen, brings tears to my eyes every time, and we get to see a ruffled Nurse R for the first time.
The actor Will Sampson who played “Chief Bromden”, is the man I’m named after. He and my father went to Santa Fe Art College together and were best friends... great analysis by the way.
Way cool!!
Hi Sampson, so nice to read your comment-I knew Sonny personally and I know exactly why you were named after him- I know first hand what a beautiful, loving soul Sonny was and what a blessing he was to everyone who knew him. In case you are interested I have a video on youtube in memory of Sonny that I made with great love to honor him and to commemorate the anniversary of his passing on June 3. You can google Remembering Will Sonny Sampson Jr. if you'd like to watch it. I hope people will think it does him justice and reflect on what a gift he was to this world. Be well Sampson! Ginny Sun-hair
words can't describe the joy i just felt when i opened CZcams and saw that my favourite movie critique just reviewed one of my all time favourite movies.
Milos forman. The Czech genius , is really underrated in the west . The guy is a gem of a director , unfortunately he passed away in 2018.
At least he left behind one great legacy!
@@JacksMovieReviews hey, who do you think should win Oscar for the best picture, best director
R.I.P Milos
I just watched this movie for the first time and absolutely loved it, I love Jack Nicholson in this movie and how he always try to cheer everyone up and have fun, in the end they all develop a great friendship
I remember the very first time (of many) I saw this movie. What stuck with me was Jack Nicholson use facial expressions during the point in which he gets a hooker for one of the young patients. You see only Jack's face has he slowly shifts from satisfaction to dis-satisfaction to anger to confusion....all without saying a word. Brilliant! Thank you for the video!
I literally just watched it again and thought the exact same thing during that scene. Doesn’t say a word, but his facial expressions are great. Mischievous, introspective, satisfied with what he’s done and melancholy. Superb
This is my favorite movie ever, and I am now lucky enough to teach the novel and movie to my high school classes. It is also about man's place in nature, and how we have lost it - a key belief of the psychedelic era, of which Kesey is a major figure. This is why Chief is the perfect narrator. He comes from a reservation, is sent to war (the greatest destructive machine society has ever created) and ends up in a mental ward. It is not until McMurphy comes on the ward that he starts looking outside of the ward - literally - to see animals in nature and the life he could have if he were to reenter nature. In the book it is developed through the machine imagery used to describe Ratched and the institution vs. the nature imagery of outside the hospital, such as geese flying, a dog loping across the hospital grounds, and ultimately the fishing trip, on which the men see their place in nature and return changed.
Hey Charels, do you upload your lessons for this film / novel anywhere? Would love to break down the film but just don’t know where to start, let me know, thanks :)
Great analysis of this Oscar winning classic film! Thanks for such an in depth review.
Thanks Ed!
@@JacksMovieReviews My pleasure Jack! I would like to hear your thoughts about other Nicholson classics that you have not covered yet. He is one of my favorite actors, bar none.😊😎
Now all the patients know the real her and she lost her strong voice from Mcmurphy's attack.
Also, Mcmurphy could of left but instead of hopping out to freedom he turned around to check on Billy because he really did care about them.
I love this movie, it has a warm, cozy, and also nostalgic feeling to it, like a blanket
untl the blanket lobotomizes you haha
Brad dourif is such an underated actor!
He made the only good ST:V episode in history.
Watch Exorcist III -- he is a POWERHOUSE actor. My god is he good in that film. By far the best in the franchise
I felt that no matter what you do life goes on. They continued the rutine after his death.
One of the best final scenes in the history of cinema. Run, Chief! Run!
Just watched this movie, I really liked it.
Maybe even one of my favorites!
- David - I can see you like Twin Peaks!
Simply doing her job. Hearing a lot of that lately.
Incredible analysis. I loved watching this and getting reminded of why this movie is one of my absolute favorites. Thank you and good job. ❤
I just finished the movie and now I’m full of emotions
This is the first great film I ever watched.
i love your reviews. You help me to see movies in a fresh way. T hank you.
One of my all time favourites. Might review it on my channel.
Let us know when you do!
One of my favourite films. Amazing film.
Its Thomas Pollock here- Fantastic analysis as always Jack! This is one of my favourite films of all time- a top 10 contender easily. It was nice to see your approach here through the lens of simply looking at the elements of conflict. Its such a layered piece of work so it was nice to see you not dive into the social and political issues it conveys and focus on simply how well the film is constructed in terms of story.
Sorry to hear you wont be doing anymore analysis videos, but I understand!
I think it is one of the very best movies ever made.
My favorite movie of all time. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
The television baseball game scene was just something else…
Great movie. Perhaps one of Jack N's finest acting. Surely a great story. Hard to believe that they actually did labotomies. Such a radical treatment. One of my favorite movies with a dynamic story line.
One of my all-time favorites
Great analysis!
awesome insight into this movie i really enjoyed it!
This film was apparently a huge influence on Shyamalan's Glass. (hintity hint hint)
Hey please come back I love your videos! Just watched this film and your commentary was spot on!
What a beautiful film . It opens our eyes. And I didn't know they were veterans chief and McMurphy.
I saw the movie for the first time recently. To me, there are a ton of parallels between this film and the Shining. They both have Jack Nicholson entering the hospital or hotel via a long drive through an idyllic natural landscape . He thinks he can bend the hotel/hospital to his will but he ends up losing his mind. Scatman Crothers is also in both films. The Native American subtext is also present in both. I couldn’t find any CZcams videos talking about the interrelationship of these two films but to me it seems so obvious.
One of my favs
Bloody good film
Thats a great analysis 👍
Excellent job
In one class that discussed this, the prof said she showed this to students in Germany who didn't like the ending. They felt chief should have saved others as well, not just himself. Interesting how different cultures view the world.
Germans being as they are, I'm surprised they weren't annoyed with McMurphy and agreeing that there must be order. That's my experience of an average German.
Classic, beautiful picture 👌
You deserve 1m subscribers and soon you'll get em
Great review as always, Jack! When I watched the movie (some time ago), thought that I need to hear your thoughts on this classic!
Pleeease review Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri! It's a fantastic movie about anger issues, attitude and consequences :)
Glad to talk about it!
It's almost a sin that you're videos don't have at least a million views, man.
I just love seeing all these adorable baby actors.
DeVito is just too cute as Martini, and I feel like Lloyd was born to play a crazy man.
It's always fun to see!
@@JacksMovieReviews "Play the game, Harding! Play the game!"
Great video, great movie.
Thank you!
very nice analysis. one of my favorites. you should do a review of apocalypse now if you haven't already.
Good sfuff
Thank you!
I love this move
He sacrifices himself to be a saviour. Sad
What a hot s&m story
My favorite movie
I *REALLY* like this movie
Thank you so much! Outstanding summary w/your remarkable GOD-GIVEN insight. You are my 1 FLEW OVER T.C.N., JEDI MASTER, 😘I LOVE TO LEARN!
This movie is GOOD.
I agree!
The book is great toooo:)
I have heard great things about this movie and I need to check it out. Other than that, great essay.
It’s really sad that the director, Milos Foreman, passed away last year. RIP Milos.
Thanks Theodore!
Jack's Movie Reviews you’re welcomed.
I remember arguing with a fellow educated fellow who I was debating with, what was the best movie of all time.
I told him my favorite movie was John Boorman's Excalibur.
He scoffed.
I told him, though the best movie I ever seen was One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
He just nodded in agreement.
Great review. I was wondering if you could do a video on Memento.
Very possibly, but no immediate plans!
@@JacksMovieReviews Alright, thank you for responding tho.
Cheers thanks
I loved the movie. Jack Nicholson light it up! But the book is also brilliant the book is even deeper and stronger in its concept that the authority must be questioned.
No back story was given in the film to explain the men.
Absent that back story, its just a story about a rebel. The book actually offered some back story
What I now think of is that this movie led almost directly led to the shut down of mental institutions across the country. Today, unless a mentally ill person agrees to the little care they might be able to receive, they often end up on the street. Many use street drugs. So, are they better off now? But at least they are free to live in horrible conditions and die on the streets.
Can you do one for Memento?
I just found your channel new sub!
Great movie. The only downside is that, in part, this movie brought about the end of “insane” asylums. Many people are homeless on the streets now who would be safer and better off in a modern mental health facility.
This is my second favorite film. Good job homes
What's your first?
She is most certainly an evil person....absolutely no need to instigate Billy like she did, too bad Mcmurphy didn't choke her out.
The book was a thousand times what the movie was.
Superb video. I think most viewers watching knew Ratchet was evil from the start though.
I'll let you know my opinion. Thanks for this.
i am related to ken kesey
Nice! However I also caught a political meaning overlapping order vs freedom. Keeping in mind that Forman's previous movies in the Czech New Wave are very political, the bird (a cockoo?) on the barbed wire hints to the berlin wall. In addition, there is a scene on tv with a debate on iron curtain. I would not be surprised to analyze many details in this context (baseball on tv, confiscated cigarettes, the patients becoming aware of their condition, etc)
I wonder if this was one of the reasons Ronald Regan closed the mental asylums in the 1980,s, because before seeing this movie my grandmother told me there were many horror stories of testing and experiments on patients at the Red Wing Minnesota asylum that scared the shit outta me at the age of 8 to know that was going on. She told me many Asylums mistreated patients horrible. A couple years later I seen it on HBO and was shocked, sad, hateful of Nurse Ratchet and joyful for Big Chief!
Everytime i drove through RedWing I got a nasty feeling about me when I would see that old asylum building on top of the bluff/hill/Cooley Mountain. I think it’s been torn down now
Good analysis, curious what your opinion as to why all the orderlies were black?
He shook things up. She secretly had a crush on him. She could not control him though. Profound ending.
I think nurse Rachett and McMurphy has major chemistry..
Either you watched another movie or you re 15. He hated her from the beggining and you could teel she was a despicable piece of shit from the opening scene
I've always liked this movie and what's not to like? The story starts off kind of light, is always entertaining but gets more compelling as it goes on via what-will-McMurphy-do-next? It's both well cast and well acted; each scene is fun to watch and the longer ones are even better as you watch them develop. You're right on about the structure vs. chaos theme. As the two heavyweights, RP and Nurse Ratched take each other on but it's not a good vs. bad scenario and not a clear winner. Mac dies but he was the kind of person who would never figure like out. Ratched gets to live on but has to go back to her duties with visible battle scars and others knowing that her comments to Billy caused his suicide. Again, not a clear winner. We're all complex folks and both Mac and Ratched have good and bad sides to them. Mac is basically a loser that can't get is life in order in spite of being really funny and kind of a 'good guy.' Ratched is basically a good person but can be petty and officious whenever she wants to be. When I first got into The Simpsons, I saw Bart in the same vein as RP..."I do what I want, when I want." This is a fun movie to watch with a friend or two and then talk about what it all really means. Thanks for this review!
It's Peg
Finally managed to watch this for the first time 4 days ago, now this video...
How did you know?
I love it when stuff like this happens, more often than you'd expect!
Doing your job doesn't excuse horrible actions. Nazis were just doing their job but at a point you have to say no when you're having a negative impact on other's lives
Make a video about taxi driver
Братишка, ты славно потрудился над обзором.
They're not prisoners they are patients. Most are they voluntarily.
I know this might seem a little random, but do you think you could do a video on Jeff, Who Lives at Home? Very underrated film
How do we know she enjoys him suffering from the lobotomy?
Yeah What... totally agree...except for the last word. I lurve pigs
@Sharon Jensen I expect that kind of behavior from modern day Leftists.
This is about medical tyranny and matriarchal tyranny. A film that is most definitely for our time!
I think it could be remade more sinister with a more evil and sinister looking head nurse. The one in this film is far too rated G
Do you believe that McMurphy is really a vegetable at the end? A lot of people think he’s faking it again. Chief puts the pillow over his face to smother him and put him out of his misery.
But what if McMurphy isn’t comatose? What if he was faking it again? You can see McMurphy really fighting hard to stop Chief.
Next time you watch the film just imagine that he’s faking it. It’s even more tragic and tough to watch.
I've just seen the movie and I don't believe that happened. The two of them make deep connection and after the electroshocks McMurphy gives the chief a sign, I think he would've do the same if he could. At first I thought I might just be the medications but then I saw the scars on the head and realize that they messed with his brain. The fact that he struggle while been suffocated might be just the basic instinct of a living been trying to live. But that's just my thought.
After any person has a lobotomy there is so little of the previous "self" left. He wouldn't have enough of himself left to joke round that way, if he even would even remember the previous joke at all. The instinct that all living things have to survive kicked in when he would have been gasping for air under the pillow. The sad thing is once somebodies had a lobotomy thats it for them you can pretty much call them gone. The Chief knew this and wouldn't let the shell of his friend carry on once all his life and "self" had been extinguished.
EneMye but that’s not what happened to him the first time they shocked him. He was fine. Why are you so sure that the second time was worse?
Nothing in the film shows that the second time they do it to him is worse.
We only think so because McMurphy is acting like a vegetable. But he was acting like that the first time too. Just acting.
When the Chief smothers him, McMurphy fights back pretty hard. Would someone who was truly lobotomized fight like this? Probably not. But a man who was joking would act this way.
I’m not saying I necessarily believe this theory. But I find it interesting
Silver Game Dog Yeah it’s totally different, people can receive ECT numerous times and make almost full recoveries. Usually a bit of memory loss but it’s rare for any amount of ECT to turn anyone into a zombie. The second time we see the scars on his head. The scars are in the exact place where they make the incisions to remove the frontal lobe from the rest of the brain. This is the difference and why he isn’t faking it the 2nd time. It is surprising the amount with which he fights back against the chief but I guess the answer to that is not to underestimate the fight for life from any living being. In a lobotomised state you probably wouldn’t put together that you were being murdered, you would probs just be struggling for air. There’s a similar situation in Betty Blue if you’ve ever seen that.
It would be way more savage if he was but that really isn’t the story. The chief sees the scars from the lobotomy and knows that his friend is half gone and wouldn’t wanna live that way. But even in that state you would still fight for air. It’s instinct. I just googled it to see if I could try and verify and apparently this is this seen as the “official” ending. Though it’s art so if ppl wanna see it differently then why not I guess _/(“,)\_
I love her Satanic hairdo
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Ive never hated a fictional character as much as i hate Nurse Ratchet.
Oh dear. She does not care for the patients how could you say that!. She cares for order and control. She is a classic control freak. This book/film is about matriarchal tyranny.
I saw this movie for the first time tonight, as we rented it. It was 1970s slow. I failed to see the greatness in it. Nothing that clever. I never really had a good time watching at any point. I must remember academy awards are often given for reasons other than entertainment. I must also realize Hollywood values aren't my values.
Your initial understanding of nurse Ratchet, in my opinion, is completely wrong. Nurse Ratchet demonstrates an underlying cruelty which is synonymous with narcissistic personality disorder. Nurse Ratchet is a malignant narcissist. l was married to one and unfortunately the traits and behaviour are extremely familiar to me.
So well said! She is the biggest piece of shit in movie history. Up there with the warden from shawshank redemption and that turd that didnt wet the sponge in the green mile, but at least they got theirs