My Favorite Movie

My favorite movie is a 1975 crime drama called: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey, and direct by Milos Forman.

In 1963, a raunchy, opportunistic and anti-autoritharian criminal called Randall Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), pretends to be mentally ill, so he can go to a mental institution instead of a jail, because he wants to avoid hard labors and stay in a more relaxing place.

Netherless, the mental hospital turns out to be a more opressive place than jail. The chief nurse, called Mildred Ratched (Louise Fletcher) has control over all the activities in the hospital. She humilliates the patients making them talk about their issues, even when they don't want that, makes them take medicines and keeps the place in order with a mind-numbling routine that suffocates them even more.

Randall becomes friends with the other patients and helps them to push out their boundaries and face the chief nurse, starting a power conflict between him and Ratched.

If I had to choose my favorite moment in the entire movie, I would choose the ending. I know that it sounds too cliché because a lot of people say that the ending is the most important moment in a movie, but it's so sad and so uplifting at the same time, that creates a touching moment that is really unforgettable. I don't want to ruin it for you with details, so lets just say that is a escape scene.

Setting in the early 60's, this movie represents the medical system of that decade very accurately. It shows how uncaring and uncompromising were the society with mentally ill people. Treating them like grown up kids instead of adults with real problems. And the fact that a man so selfish and opportunistic like Randall can understands them better that the most qualifed doctors and nurses of that time, have a meaningful social commentary, that still holds relevance in these days.