After watching "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

After reading "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1)

The story takes place in 1963. There is a national mental hospital next to a jungle in the United States, where all kinds of people live. of mental patients. One day, a middle-aged man named McMurphy was escorted to the National Mental Hospital by armed correctional officer officers. McMurphy is a strong young man with a bold personality. In order to evade his responsibilities in the correctional institution and behave abnormally in front of the people in the correctional institution, he was sent to a mental hospital. After McMurphy entered the hospital, he thought he would be freer and more relaxed, but unexpectedly he was restricted everywhere. The attending doctor, Dr. Spieffe, came to talk to him because he had a series of "abnormal" words and deeds in the reformatory. Because of the information sent by the reformatory, Said that this middle-aged man behaved in a correctional institution and often got into fights?

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. After the film was released, it not only won five Oscars and two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Best Cinematography, but also achieved great commercial success. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is also the second film to win five major Oscars after "It Happened One Night" (1934).

This film is a representative work of American social films in the 1970s. With its profound ideological connotation and outstanding performance, the film won five awards at the 48th Academy Awards in 1975, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Actor, Best Director and Best Adaptation. Although the film used the old theme of mental patients, which is often involved in Hollywood movies, it was a great success because it injected new social meaning and connotation. The mental hospital in the film is actually a microcosm of the sick and repressive industrialized society in the United States. The film has profound morals and sharp satire. On the surface, the film tells a tragic story that happened in a mental hospital, but in fact it shows the tragic fate of a hero who fights alone for the liberation of his personality and is eventually swallowed up by society because he cannot find the right path to liberation. A strong sense of tragedy.

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is a gripping work. The film is set in a mental hospital and focuses on the horrific scene of people being tightly bound and unable to move in the so-called modernized society at that time. This scene deeply captures the heart of every viewer and makes people feel a deep sense of terror. The protagonist McMurphy's pursuit of freedom and final tragic experience deeply reflect people's depression and tragic fate, giving the film a deeply touching effect. The ending of the film is the highlight of the film. It is full of creeping horror atmosphere, but it is also the most touching passage. In the dim light, the "Chief" came to McMurphy's bedside and called to him, but McMurphy could only respond with idiotic mumblings. "I'll take you out," the chief said, suffocating him with a pillow. This scene made people burst into tears, and at the same time, it made people feel a deep and indescribable depression. The Chief's escape from the suffocating mental hospital also symbolizes the return of humanity. The director used an Indian character to complete this action, which is a metaphor that only when people return to nature can they be truly free. It can be said that this film is a heavy blow to the modern industrialized society that suppresses human nature.

As far as commercial films are concerned, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" on the surface is an indictment of the asylum system that the public can understand and accept, and the laughter, anger, etc. in the plot can attract the audience until the end. .

As far as philosophical films are concerned, it profoundly reflects the shortcomings of human social systems, axioms, and laws. She made me ponder: What is "crazy"? If an individual's personality behavior exceeds what society accepts, it is crazy? Just like we sometimes scratch the back of the head unconsciously, but when a person scratches often, he is defined as crazy. Why can human beings judge others in this way? Should we get reflection from this film on the so-called social consciousness, social justice, and social order?

" After reading "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (2)

The first time I learned about this book was when I read Chai Jing's "Seeing". In the book, she was touched by a certain detail about watching the movie of the same name. Then, I remembered that such a book existed.

I bought this book very accidentally. I was just going to the bookstore to buy comic books for my niece, and I brought a few books for myself that Dangdang had never had in stock. However, I wandered around the Xidan Book Building for most of the afternoon, and the books I was looking for were nowhere to be seen. At that time, I had given up searching again and was about to escape, but it suddenly appeared in front of my eyes. This was somewhat like "The Flowers on the Willow Bank, Another Village"! When I saw the title of the book, Chai Jingzhai came to mind. Written snippets. So, that’s how I got attached to it.

When I first started reading this book, I encountered a reading bottleneck. During those two days, I couldn't find any pleasure in reading words. I only read casually every day, and my mental state was extremely poor. Finally, I compromised with myself and gave up reading for literacy. After relaxing for a few days, I picked up this book to read again. Slowly, I began to find the joy of reading again. I had to squeeze in some time to read this book every morning and evening.

The book "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" mainly revolves around the gambler McMurphy, who was sentenced to mental disorder and imprisoned in a lunatic asylum in order to evade criminal law. His arrival caused complete chaos in the originally serious and orderly lunatic asylum. Originally, every mentally ill patient, every time Nurse Ratched used the mask of an angel to treat and physically attack everyone, everyone was fearful and timid in their hearts and feared the majesty of the Nurse. Since Mike arrived, he has fought with the big nurse again and again for his own freedom. In the fight after fight, the patients increasingly regarded him as a hero. Mike took off the mask of the big nurse, the angel, and stepped on it under his feet again and again, while the big nurse used her privileges to suppress Mike again and again. During a group swimming event, Mike accidentally learned that whether he could be discharged from the hospital as scheduled was decided by the nurse, so he temporarily compromised. Is this what he said to his fellow patients? Sometimes you have to give in reluctantly to protect your own interests!? Yes, when facing power, the one we hurt when we confront it head-on is still our weak self. This is Society!

As Mike surrendered for a week, he gradually realized that his arrival had set the previously majestic nurse too low, so that she could not possibly release him from the hospital as scheduled. He slowly began to resist the "joint organization" represented by the big nurse again for the sake of freedom and human rights. He struggled alone, and he was still the gambler Mike. Everyone believed the big nurse's explanation of Mike's various behaviors, and began to treat him coldly and exclude him. Fortunately, the chief, the man who had been pretending to be deaf and mute, believed in Mike. When Mike refused to give in to the big nurse's power again and again, everyone once again paid tribute to Mike. Together they resisted the big nurse "United Agency" who eats people but not spits out bones.

In the end, Mike couldn’t bear the patient’s insult and committed suicide, so he beat the nurse violently. In order to return to the majesty of the time when there was no Mike, the "joint agency" cruelly turned Mike into an idiot! The chief couldn't bear the insult of Mike by the big nurse, so he resolutely killed Mike and used the method Mike taught him to escape from the cannibals? United Agency?, leading to the paradise of freedom with Mike's faith. In fact, I really don’t want to believe that the idiot lying on the bed at the end was the stubborn Mike.

What I like about Mike may be because of his courage to fight against the powerful. He can fight again and again to see the World Baseball Stadium, and lobby the timid patients to support him again and again. He can fight for the patients once and for all. He was able to face the inhumane harm done to him by the "joint agency" against the big nurse every time. He persisted in not bowing to the power! In the end, he still died under the power! Fortunately, most of the patients recovered their lost possessions. The courage to leave this madhouse that he always wanted everyone to leave!