Review of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) by Huseyn B — 03 Oct 2012

Quickly became a legendary picture of Milos Forman Czech immigrant, only the second in his American career, not only won five "Oscars" (for the film, director, adapted screenplay, the main male and female roles), which was only the second time in history Academy, 40 years after the triumph of the romantic comedy "It Happened One Night," Frank Capra. Feed Foreman, who, perhaps, can be attributed to the genre of tragicomedy, also enjoyed great success in the U.S. box office (it looked almost 55 million people!) And is still popular among ordinary spectators in almost all countries of the world, confirming the presence of the rare cases of universality from a number of cinematographic perceived to "cheers" by critics and professionals, and the mass audience.

A screen adaptation of the cult novel by Ken Kesey, still known among a small subculture wing, made a profound effect on the most diverse audience, perhaps due to broad interpretation of the director of the original situation where the hero of the film, along with Randle McMurphy, who does not want to go to prison and therefore simulates signs of insanity, we are in a madhouse, it appears as a model of society. There are the same laws prevail similar orders. We gradually come to the conclusion that in fact society - a model of the madhouse. They are swapped. Mental hospital patients - not mad. They are in it voluntarily. Because the "nuthouse" - as a refuge, the last resting place. But even there, the society does not leave them alone. People are rushing around in a desperate situation between individual and collective madness. There is no alternative. Or you do this crazy with electric shocks, or subjected to "brainwashing" in society, using the means of "mass befuddling" and total manipulation.

Still, the characters pictures solved by McMurphy, a kind of rebellion, first went with him to an unauthorized trip by bus and boat trip, and then protest regulations in the clinic. McMurphy awakened almost forgotten in all the desire to be free, so - to be human. At the end of a complete joy of liberation, which was able to feel just a giant, an Indian, a couple who escaped from a mental hospital - is that he never beat out from the memory of man no society. Runs is the one for whom the lunatic asylum - the final refuge, in a society - the most miserable renegade without rights and freedoms. But he rushes into the unknown, almost - in the dark, to feel such a short moment of freedom.

Name of the novel and the films adapted from a children's song, the epigraph: "Someone flew west, one flew east, and one flew over the cuckoo's nest." In the liberal interpretation of a literary translator of Kesey turned more rhythmic and rhymed in addition, as in the original, Counting, "Which of the house, who is in, who is working on Kukushkin nest." But it unfortunately disappeared motive unbuttoned geographical space, open to different points of the compass, which was, perhaps, the added value for Milos Forman, who, one might say, had fled to the West from the East, and have experienced all the "charms" of both public Build - socialist and capitalist.

After all, for a subject of internal and external freedom - in actual fact, penetrating both the Czech and in American films from the first "default" to "Man on the Moon." Foreman sickens any violence over the individual, it does not accept any form of oppression and subordination. So in the acclaimed U.S. film "One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" and the Met with a dull irritation adaptation of rock musical "Hair", and sour assessed work "The People vs. Larry Flynt" is doubtless a sober and dispassionate look at the America, which is not a paradise on earth, shaded by the Statue of Liberty.

In the American vernacular, "Cuckoo's Nest" - it's a madhouse. And the flight towards freedom - like flying over the cuckoo's nest. But in addition, the name has a different meaning. Cuckoo's Nest - the nest without chicks. She throws them to their fate - let yourself get out. Paradoxically, it is quite reminiscent of the typical American principle: "create yourself." So, America - this empty nest the cuckoo, and her own children are homeless outcasts, endlessly wandering the roads. The plan "Some flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", including - thanks to the presence of Jack Nicholson, who played one of his best roles, is precisely in the context of American cinema of the late 60's - early 70's. But at the same time and is perceived as the common proverb existential content, telling about the identity of the problem of freedom, whether it is only a private or public importance.