Top 250. Again One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
This story about the Rebel , who understands everything "Deaf-mute" , the authoritarian Leader and the human biomass subordinate to him, which "suits everything", has not lost its relevance for 39 years since its release and is unlikely to ever lose. There will always be someone who“at least try”to tear off a marble column for water procedures from the floor, and there will always be those who will have time to attach it to the floor beforehand.According to the plot, based on the novel of the same name by Ken Kesey, the absolutely sane criminal Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is sent to a psychiatric hospital for examination. The harsh order established in this closed world by the nurse Mildred Ratched (Louise Fletcher) makes him indignant: the patients of the clinic literally do not care.  McMurphy is trying to impose the principles of democracy on local old-timers , but gradually realizes that most of the humiliated and insulted are here on a voluntary basis. After an unsuccessful attempt to escape and a serious conflict with a nurse, including self-mutilation, the rebel logically runs into the brutal procedures of punitive psychiatry. The system gains the upper hand over the main instigator, but his feat shifts tectonic plates in the minds of at least one person ...One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the very case when it’s not so simple, without argumentation, that “the book is better”. In this case, “better” is both watching a movie and reading a book, in which the story is told from the perspective of a mighty Indian cleaner, nicknamed the Chief , so the overall picture of this story is more complete.  It is known that the path of the novel Kesey to the big screen was long and thorny: producers replaced one another, film companies did not want to fork out for such a financially unpromising project, suitable actresses refused to play Ratched's sister , and finding a huge textured Indian seemed to be a matter and completely impossible.  Fortunately, the stars came together so that actor Jack Nicholson, director Milos Forman and producers (Saul Zaents and Michael Douglas) were able to agree. That is, Jack was promised a million plus a percentage of the fees, and the money for the shooting was found by Michael and Sol using personal resources. On everything else, it was decided to save.  The filming process took place in a real hospital, the head physician of which gave the filmmakers an entire empty department and a group of patients for extras (he himself played one of the key roles). Many of the scenes that ended up in the film were pure improvisation (including Randall's first conversation with Dr. Spivy ). The actors slept in hospital beds, ate hospital food, learned the basics of human behavior with a particular mental disorder, closely communicating with patients. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest McMurphy's first conversation with Dr. Spivey None of the filmmakers expected the film adaptation to be financially successful, so the contract was signed just for show. However, not only the widest audience, but also picky critics, as well as fellow filmmakers, went into raptures.  They praised Nicholson , for whom this role became one of the best, the visual intimacy of the action, the deepest study of the theme of collective madness and the fruitless attempts of the individual to resist it. With all the charm and all the powerful energy of the protagonist, whom you fall in love with from the first shots, the viewer inexorably feels the approach of the wildest emotional vacuum towards the end of the tape, which remains after the departure of McMurphy.  Of course, there were those who did not like the film. Ken Kesey and even more so sued the creators of the tape and anathematized everyone who "outraged" his ingenious work. The dissatisfied wrote that "the book is better" because it is deeper, more symbolic and about something else in general. Nevertheless, the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest won five Oscars , and in total - more than 30 awards and 12 nominations for various film awards.  Milos Forman may not have directed the world's best adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel , but he“at least damn it”. Previous reviews-annotations for films from the Top 250 : 1. Ode to Requiem for a Dream 2. Leafing through the "Memory Diary" 3. In the "Society of Dead Poets" 4. The charm of "Casablanca" 5. Living "Groundhog Day" 6. Try "Catch Me If You Can" 7. Listening to The Silence of the Lambs 8. Aroma of "Magnolia" 9. You Can't Kill a Mockingbird 10. The fate of Schindler's List 11. Big Secrets of Los Angeles 12. Desperate "Graduate" 13. Alfonso Cuaron and "The Prisoner of Azkaban" 14. Operation Fargo 15. Life through the "Window to the courtyard" 16. Survival Into the Wild 17. 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