Movie: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

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Movie: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

     Thomas Evans
     12-6-96
     General Psychology
     Dr. Sabin

     In the movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest, there was a character
named McMurphy, played by Jack Nickolson, who was admitted into a mental
institution for medical testing after having been convicted of statutory rape.
It was obvious that he was only faking and he thought that he could get off from
having to serve his sentence in a work camp.  He pretty much saw everything and
everyone as a joke but the only person who he didn't fool was nurse Ratchet.  He
thought that he would be able to leave in a couple of months, the time of his
sentence in the work camp, until he found out that he wouldn't be allowed to
leave.
     After a few days he began to see the patients as a group that needed
more enjoyment in their lives and he wanted to try to find some way that they
could get out and go to a bar and watch the world series.  The nursing staff
seemed uncaring to their lack of enjoyment to life and basically refused to
allow the patients to even watch the game on the TV during their chores even
after having took a vote where a mute patient nicknamed 'Chief' for the first
time communicated that he wanted to watch the game.  McMurphy had befriended
Chief and later discovered that he was not deaf and dumb but was only faking his
muteness and they planed to escape together.
     McMurphy later found out that many of these patients were here only
because they put themselves here and didn't want to leave even though they had
the option to.  He tried his best to bring some life to these patients such as
teaching them to play poker and gambling for cigarettes.  He even went so far as
to escape over a fence only to open the gate and to get the patients onto a
nearby bus and drive them to the docks where he took them on a fishing trip.
Also he arranged for his girlfriend and a prostitute to come to the institution
at night with some alcohol and had a little party for them before he decided he
was going t...

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