Movies today try too fucking hard. They're either trying to say something so blatantly obvious it kills the thing or they're saying nothing at all so that when you walk out, you barely remember the thing. My suggestion- Go rent a movie that says something but doesn't scream it from the hills. Watch the best performances in a movie, best cinematic direction, and acute attention to detail, with Nicholson smiling the whole way through.What is " One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" about you say? Well, let me lift that rock off of your head and give you a clue- It's about a man who has balls hard enough to stand up to someone with a very large pair of scissors. Less vague an answer you say? It's about a man feigning insanity to escape the drudgery of prison but finds himself standing up for fellow mental inmates against a tyrannical nurse. More deep an answer you say? It's about standing up for yourself in a society, which tries to keep you down.
Every character is a metaphor. Every idea and notion is symbol of something else. You think they're in a mental institution? Okay, but that institution represents our planet, our world. They live in their part of the earth while other's live in theirs. They interact but only at an arm’s length away and mostly to be scolded. These inmates, or patients, are being kept inside an ordered society and their throats are too tired to scream for it's downfall.
In comes Randall Patrick McMurphy. He presents an immediate change to their ordered world, flashing photos of naked women on the back of playing cards. At once, the inmates are drawn to this new guy. A man who presents pornography, gambling, and swearing to a sanitized world (fuck you Mayor Barry, taking away those poor New Yorkers sex shops). This guy represents chaos. Nurse Ratched, keeper of the order, sees it. But she doesn't back down. She doesn't give up her little fight after he starts fighting back. She is society. And society always beats individuality. Always.A real art-movie that isn't consisted of swearing and fucking for the sake of reality, least not every five seconds. One more suggestion- shut up about Nicholson. Him and DeNiro could have made Baby Geniuses and I don't think it would have been that bad.
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