One flew over the cuckoo's nest is a tragic drama in which i felt that the climax became very instinctive. one cannot avoid shedding a tear for jack's character. so cheerful was he when he came into the asylum & so much cheer that he spread everywhere, that when i saw him in the end, without any reactions on his face, so neutral that he became - so neutral that it reminded me of matt's neutrality exercises !, i was struck by grief. I cant contain myself from making this comment. Young Nicholson's face reminds me of a young R.S Manohar & WWF/E star 'The Undertaker' ! gleeee......
The movie set me thinking about the makers of munnabhai and their understanding of the importance of characterisation. Oh well, its continued even till kalloori !, the last movie in which i thought the characters carried the film.
ok & here, Strong characters, all set in a mental asylum, carry the story on their shoulders.
Jack, the most important of all, gets into this place by mistake and meets a gruelling end. Was that short enough ?
Put brilliantly by someone,
"Set in an insane asylum, the film involves the oppression of the individual, a struggle spearheaded by an ebullient Nicholson, turning in a star performance if ever there was one."
& then i came across this interesting tidbit -
"along with It Happened One Night and The Silence of the Lambs, these are the only three films to win all four major Oscars (actor, actress, director, picture). It's still the only film to deserve it"
The title is said to have been derived from an American children's folk rhyme. [1]
Wire, briar, limber-lock
Three geese in a flock
One flew east, one flew west
And one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
As per the wiki - It loses the significance it had in the novel, in which the line is a part of a rhyme, Chief Bromden remembers from his childhood. This detail was not included in the film.
ah, did i forget to mention chief bromden, the burly man who does'nt need to jump to do a slam dunk ! The nice man who decides to kill jack after seeing his pathetic condition.
Finally, Ken Kesey's novel must be an awesome read.
ok. After all this gibberish, its of utmost importance that i give my poor puzzled readers atleast a proper shortened movie review? alright here you go -
(review 'adapted' !!! from rottentomatoes. )
Milos Foreman's ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST presents a biting and ultimately tragic satire about mental institutions and the human spirit. A disturbing, witty, and electrifying drama, the film won the 1975 Academy Award for Best Picture. R.P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a misbehaved con who shirks authority, finds himself in an asylum after faking insanity to get out of work detail in prison. The vivacious troublemaker soon finds himself in a worse kind of prison--one presided over by the repressed, terrifyingly quiet Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), whose set of rules and regulations are meant to suppress patients' psychotic outbursts, and their spirits. It's not long before McMurphy is reaching out to his new inmates, trying desperately to bring life to an otherwise dead atmosphere. To Ratched, however, Nicholson's free spirit is as dangerous as a schizophrenic impulse. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST is brilliantly acted by an ensemble that includes Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd, Vincent Schiavelli, and Danny DeVito.
critics take things too personal, dont they ? read this -
Even granting the artist his license, America is much too big and various to be satisfactorily reduced to the dimensions of one mental ward in a movie like this.
& this -
Is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest not a great film because it is manipulative, or is it great because it is so superbly manipulative? I can see it through either filter.
Ok. off you go, forget the critics and catch this movie somewhere sometime. mmmm.. try torrentspy ! AAllrriigghhtt, stop your grins and growls & become a critic urself. WATCH THIS MOVIE FIRST !!!!!!!!!!
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