One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Essay

As a class, we watched the movie, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, which is regarded as a classic film that left a lasting impact on how viewers view treatments of various mental illnesses. The procedures such as lobotomies, and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) were harsh and give to patients without any thought to the lasting effects on their minds. The treatments seemed a way to keep the patients under control. After seeing the movie, the audiences viewed the treatments for mental illness as dangerous, inhumane and used with abandonment. The show also brought to light how patients were treated in a large mental institutions, making them question how awful mental healthcare was and how much it needed to improve. The film depicts the several psychology phenomena. The film is narrated by Chief Bromden, who is the longest patient in Nurse Ratched’s mental ward. The Chief appears to be deaf and dumb, but he really knows what is going on around him. The Chief acting as if he can’t talk or understand, both patients and staff attain an attitude about him. Both patients and staff have feelings often based on beliefs that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people and events. They just respond how they think they should respond by teasing and laughing at the Chief’s expense.
McMurphy demonstrates his concern for others by insisting they take a bus ride to go fishing. McMurphy believes by taking a day trip everyone would benefit. McMurphy learns that Nurse Ratched is persecuting the patients by forcing treatments such as shock therapy and lobotomies, he starts his various rebellions to make matters reasonable. He inspires the patients to stick up for themselves. An example would be when he suggests they delay their daily work so that the patients can watch the World Series