Cuckoos just don't live in clocks
What might seem like an irrelevant fixation to you might be somebody else’s entire universe. A person’s tragedy becomes another’s lark. Milos Forman’s ‘One flew over the cuckoos nest’ is concerning this irk. What is really madness? Is it the inability to fit into the mundane clone like behavior that the society demands, and play this crazy masquerade of hypocrisy? Who decides the thin line between insanity and normalness?If someone were to subsist like a vegetable, thoughtless, emotionless would it be worth living at all??? Is death also a form of freedom? Why do humans like to play these power games? Need answers to these questions? Do watch the movie.
What do I say about Jack Nicholson...he is beyond words, Danny Devito is too sweet, with his stupid smile. Brilliant performances by the entire cast.
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Strange - MacMurphy has been on my mind a lot, of late, just like that! Especially the "At least I tried, goddamit" scene, after unsuccessfully trying to pull up the washstand to break the windows, and the other one where he takes the inmates fishing on a stolen boat, one bright sunny morning! What joy!
Saw the film again this year, the first time was too far back. Yes, hats off to Nicholson, to carry off that bizarre mixture of violence and kindness, so credibly.
Robert M Pirsig also has a lot of interesting, often radical, views on insanity, in his book, "Lila, an Inquiry into Morals."
And of course, there is always R.D.Laing's statement (from 'The Divided Self')that "the cracked mind of the schizophrenic may let in light which does not enter the intact minds of many sane people whose minds are closed"!!
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