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.

One of the best films ever, would love to see a video on Trainspotting

its so weird seeing danny devito look like this after currently binging its always sunny

Jack Nicholson has such star presence in this film.

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.

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?

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.

words can't describe the joy i just felt when i opened KZfaq and saw that my favourite movie critique just reviewed one of my all time favourite movies.

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.

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.

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.

One of the best final scenes in the history of cinema. Run, Chief! Run!

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!

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.

Great analysis of this Oscar winning classic film! Thanks for such an in depth review.

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.

Brad dourif is such an underated actor!

I love this movie, it has a warm, cozy, and also nostalgic feeling to it, like a blanket

I felt that no matter what you do life goes on. They continued the rutine after his death.

Just watched this movie, I really liked it. Maybe even one of my favorites!

This is the first great film I ever watched.

One of my favourite films. Amazing film.

I just finished the movie and now I’m full of emotions

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 think it is one of the very best movies ever made.

Simply doing her job. Hearing a lot of that lately.

One of my all time favourites. Might review it on my channel.

The television baseball game scene was just something else…

My favorite movie of all time. Thanks.

This film was apparently a huge influence on Shyamalan's Glass. (hintity hint hint)

i love your reviews. You help me to see movies in a fresh way. T hank you.

Good sfuff

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.

What a hot s&m story

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 KZfaq videos talking about the interrelationship of these two films but to me it seems so obvious.

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 :)

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!

One of my all-time favorites

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.

awesome insight into this movie i really enjoyed it!

What a beautiful film . It opens our eyes. And I didn't know they were veterans chief and McMurphy.

Great analysis!

Bloody good film

He sacrifices himself to be a saviour. Sad

Classic, beautiful picture 👌

Hey please come back I love your videos! Just watched this film and your commentary was spot on!

Thats a great analysis 👍

Excellent job

This movie is GOOD.

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.

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.

Great video, great movie.

You deserve 1m subscribers and soon you'll get em

very nice analysis. one of my favorites. you should do a review of apocalypse now if you haven't already.

One of my favs

It's almost a sin that you're videos don't have at least a million views, man.

I *REALLY* like this movie

I love this move

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!

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 is great toooo:)

My favorite movie

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 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.

Great review. I was wondering if you could do a video on Memento.

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

i am related to ken kesey

Can you do one for Memento? I just found your channel new sub!

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.

The book was a thousand times what the movie was.

Cheers thanks

Superb video. I think most viewers watching knew Ratchet was evil from the start though.

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.

I'll let you know my opinion. Thanks for this.

This is my second favorite film. Good job homes

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?

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!

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..

Братишка, ты славно потрудился над обзором.

It's Peg

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

This is about medical tyranny and matriarchal tyranny. A film that is most definitely for our time!

Make a video about taxi driver

They're not prisoners they are patients. Most are they voluntarily.

Finally managed to watch this for the first time 4 days ago, now this video... How did you know?

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

I love her Satanic hairdo

How do we know she enjoys him suffering from the lobotomy?

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.

Ive never hated a fictional character as much as i hate Nurse Ratchet.

:D

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.