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One Flew Over Wit
by Rhama Arya W (movies profile)
Nov 24, 2007
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4 people found this review helpful
One of the few movie that achieved the big-4 (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director) Oscar that tells and captures the story in and around of a hospital for mental-illness. At a first glance, it mainly involves a common mental-illness patients. Void, weird-ness, medicine-hour, prison-like ward, mass bath, and group therapy which all seems to made a singular stereotype view of a hospital of the kind and practically focused on how intimidating the role of a nurse in the hospital was until she seemed to be escaping the equality-issue by way of positioning herself in a higher level than her patients were. And the actress who played the nurse named Ratched (Louis Fletcher) displaying it well for in our eyes, she seems to be ignoring almost every word her patient had said during the group therapy.
All was changed though when McMurphy (Nicholson) enters the stage. He doesn't appear to had a mental-illness judging from his appearance, his talks, and his attitudes. But however, he had to blend with other patients, attending the group therapy, and missed the world series games against the regulation.
All the events was eventually get his nerves as he tried to escape from the hell-hole, but not until he had build his relationships with other patients as they had a little fishing trip, a poker play, and of course a group therapy. His 'misbehaviour' - which in my eyes proved his sanity - led to a mutual friendship with the indian patient, Chief who had the biggest posture there. And together they promised one another to escape and went to Canada.
McMurphy had the dreams of escape firmly in his hand at one faithful night but only after he held a farewell party which led to the climate regarding to the chemistry between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched and further led to the sorrowful and witted ending.
That particular climate scene invovling McMurphy, Ratched, patient named Billy, and Chief reformulates the love that portrayed in brief along the movie. As an audience, i could feel the hatred, the love, and the dignity among the characters especially in that particular scene. That scene was, in my opinion one of the best ending scene of a drama movie.
I'm not a devoted fans of Jack Nicholson and i barely knew Louis Fletcher but in this movie they deserved the Academy for they had brought forward the fondness, and ego of each character and mix the chemistry very well among themselves. |
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