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One Flew Over the Cuckoos NestThis read unlike most new(prenominal)s on the same topic had no real event to focus on. There was not just one climax or specific scene that the others built up to or supported. I cannot say that I enjoyed it but I do feel it has to a great extent affected me. The only reason I feel that this film is one worth watching is because of the latent message it holds. It very successfully exposes authority and bureaucracy in society. The characters in this film portray people that are either convinced or have been convinced that are crazy. Mac, a man with no real purpose in life but to sweep through it somehow, is sent to a mental institution for doctors to determine whether he is crazy. There he makes an enemy of the head nurse in the ward, whose methods of taking wangle of the patients are harsh and rigid. What intrigues me most about the Ms.Ratcheds (the nurse), character in this film is the fact that even though so much out of the intermediate happen s, she returns to her normal self in a matter of seconds. It seems that years of routine and monotony have taken over her and she simply cannot have things any other way. Anything out of the ordinary is repugnant to her, thus her firm resolve to not allow the patients to view a ball game during the universe of discourse Series. Which is why when she encounters Mac, she feels she needs to suppress his outrageous acts in any way possible. She goes to the extent of sendin...