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Movie: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Paper

Movie: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

In the movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest, there was a character
named McMurphy, played by Jack Nickolson, who was admitted into a mental
institution for medical testing after having been convicted of statutory rape.
It was obvious that he was only faking and he thought that he could get off from
having to serve his sentence in a work camp. He pretty much saw everything and
everyone as a joke but the only person who he didn't fool was nurse Ratchet. He
thought that he would be able to leave in a couple of months, the time of his
sentence in the work camp, until he found out that he wouldn't be allowed to
leave.
After a few days he began to see the patients as a group that ...

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deaf and dumb but was only faking his
muteness and they planed to escape together.
McMurphy later found out that many of these patients were here only
because they put themselves here and didn't want to leave even though they had
the option to. He tried his best to bring some life to these patients such as
teaching them to play poker and gambling for cigarettes. He even went so far as
to escape over a fence only to open the gate and to get the patients onto a
nearby bus and drive them to the docks where he took them on a fishing trip.
Also he arranged for his girlfriend and a prostitute to come to the institution
at night with some alcohol and had a little party for them before he decided he
was going to escape. The next morning one of the patients who was suicidal was
found by the nurses in bed with the prostitute. Nurse Ratchet told him that he
would tell his mother what he had done and the patient was found later dead on
the floor from having had slashed his own ...

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Added: 9/20/2004 04:58:22 PM
Category: Arts
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