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One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest Film Response

 In the film One Flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest the setting is in a mental hospital with patients varying from different mental disorders. The main character Randall Murphy is brought into the hospital from a Jail where he was sent for statutory rape. In the movie he does not show any mental illnesses but rather he is trying to avoid jail time and do the rest of his sentence in a mental hospital. As he enters the Mental hospital you see numerous patients such as “ Billy Bibbit, a nervous, stuttering young man; Charlie Cheswick , a man disposed to childish fits of temper; Martini , who is delusional; Dale Harding , a high-strung, well-educated paranoid; Taber , who is belligerent and profane; and "Chief" Bromden , a silent Native American believed to be deaf and mute” (Wikipedia). In this film they Depict Billy Bibbit as boy in an older man’s body, the reason for that is he can be controlled very quickly and will be obedient if he feels threatened. In the movie the head Nurse at the Mental Hospital would guilt him by mentioning his mother, showing that Billy may have been controlled by his mother in his younger years never really growing out of it. When Billy sleeps with a woman at the end of the show, the Nurse threatens to tell his Mother. Due to Billy’s high amount of stressors and his mood disorders (page 394 ) connected with his Mother and if she were to find out something bad he did. This later resulted in Billy committing suicide influenced on stressors that can be linked to depression or “negative life events as a well as family history played significant roles in the development of mood disorders,” (Cui & Valliant Page 394). From this quote and theory in the book you can see that if the Nurse had not threatened Billy to tell his Mom about the situation, he would not have been stressed out and made a harsh decision. Another character in the movie One Flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest is Chief Bromden who is a tall Native American that everyone in the Mental Hospital thinks is Deaf and Mute. The reason they believe he is deaf and mute is he never reacts to anyone in the facility due to fear of getting in trouble. So by using Deaf and mute as a way to avoid human interaction so he will be left alone. In the movie they are playing basketball and the call him “stupid and retarded, but later he goes on to scoring baskets and reacting to what McMurphy says,” showing him beginning to break out from avoiding the other patients. With Chief you see the Facial Feedback Hypothesis (page 313) where chief pretends to be deaf but when he scores the basket he smiles showing that it may be cause he experiencing happiness or excitement as an emotion. All of the patients in the mental hospital were mentally challenged in one way or the other. Throughout the film McMurphy challenges each patient interacting with them representing to them freedom or life. They meet through the movie for Group therapy to resolve issues or problems (page 417). It is led by a Nurse who uses manipulation to the patients while McMurphy rebels the other patients start respecting McMurphy as their leader. McMurphy later uses Chief to Jump over the fence and steal the boss with all the patients. He takes them on the boat and they begin fishing breaking not only out of their hospital, but also breaking out of their own fear of being free. Bandura’s Reciprocal Determinism (page 366) could be considered what was happening here with the cast with the change of environment (on the lake), behavior (rebellious), personal/cognitive factors. The patients become more united as a group and friends even though they all have different personalities.  The director’s intent in this movie is showing different patients, with different mental illnesses, and how life was in there under the authority of a strict staff limiting them from grow to their full potential. But before McMurphy arrives to the Mental hospital the movies shows that it was very strict environment and all the patients feared the authority above them. This contributes to a film where you see each patient react in different ways to the main character McMurphy.  This film received won five Academy Awards, Six Golden Globes, and six BAFTA awards for various actors’ performances. This film did well in the box office when it came out in 1975. Wikipedia states “The film is considered to be one of the greatest American films,” (Wikipedia). This movie too many at that time brought up the discussion what is mentally unstable; these questions are brought up from different performances of disabilities by the actors.  Many Psychological fields are relevant to One Flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest. Behaviorism is a common theme for the film as you see the patient’s behavior change when variables in the environment change. Each patient in the mental hospital has different characteristics making them make different choices relating to Humanistic Psychology. Having a film with the majority of the cast having mental disabilities it has the opportunity to relate to cognitive psychology seeing all the patients in the same environment go through decision making to follow McMurphy or stay under the authority of the Nurses. At the end of the Film the main character McMurphy escapes from the mental hospital representing freedom to all the patients and symbolizing to them that there is a life beyond the walls of the mental hospital. The character McMurphy represents the outside world and a rebellious spirit that won’t listen to authority. All the patients idolize him and follow him as a leader which results in them having their boundaries pushed and encouraged to not fear the nurses. During the whole film McMurphy is under a Case Study (page 15) as the Mental Hospital is evaluating him to see what is wrong with him. This film is an accurate vision of different disabilities and how life with them is, giving the audience the view that they are individuals to that deserved to be treated like everyone else. Behavioral, Psychoanalytic, Humanistic and Cognitive Psychology references and examples are used throughout the film One Flew over a Cuckoo’s nest making it a great film study for a student looking for examples of Psychology Fields. In One Flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest patient Randal McMurphy is brought into a mental hospital from jail, claiming he is mentally sick so he doesn’t have to do his sentence in jail. As he enters the Mental hospital you see numerous patients such as “ Billy Bibbit, a nervous, stuttering young man; Charlie Cheswick , a man disposed to childish fits of temper; Martini , who is delusional; Dale Harding , a high-strung, well-educated paranoid; Taber , who is belligerent and profane; and "Chief" Bromden , a silent Native American believed to be deaf and mute” (Wikipedia). This film addresses many different human growth and development issues. The majorities of these men acts childish or are very insecure and live in fear. The main nurse knows that these issues are from earlier in their life when they have seen something tragic. An example of this is Billy Bibbit who has tried committed suicide numerous times suffering from depression and lives in fear from authority being influenced very easily. Billy has Post Traumatic Stress and you can tell when confronted by a nurse or a figure of authority he stutters in fear of them. Later in the film McMurphy finds out that most of the patients are in the hospital by choice because they would rather have a structure and be told what to do, rather than be independent in society. This shows that as these men have developed and grew up that they have had aid and that they rely on help everyday they don’t want to stand on their own two legs. McMurphy symbolizes freedom and pushes the patients and their disabilities by making them break out of their preferred controlled lifestyle. Throughout the movie the nurses use EST Electroshock therapy given to patients who misbehave or act up putting them in more fear of the authority above them. Cognitive development is seen when McMurphy steals a bus and take the male patients out to fishing, even though the adults they act as happy as kids experiencing this freedom for the first time. Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory can be seen as the patients are fishing at first they starred like it was in their mental structure and the interaction with the other patients they would go head and go fishing catching fish. The Chief is a tall Native American that plays deaf and mute the majority of the movie later exposing he was faking the disabilities. Cigarettes are smoked by the majority of the patients to relief stress or to relax. From the way the group of men interacts in the beginning you can tell as children they did not have a normal life probably resulting in Moral Development or Antisocial behavior. Billy Bibbit later commits suicide in the movie after being threatened by the nurse. Billy lived in fear of his mother probably from growing up under her and living in fear in his developing years. Billy had a past history of suicide attempts before he actually committed suicide. Group Therapy was used in the film as well and the nurse would confront Billy about his past attempts leaving him stuttering or flustered. Throughout the film McMurphy is looked up to by all the other patients representing freedom from the outside world.

 Though the film One Flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest does not have characters in their teens or younger years, it still can relate to different parts of growth and development. McMurphy finds out in the middle of the movie, in a group therapy session that must of the patients are in the hospital voluntarily. Reasons for this maybe that they are still need to be taken care of just like a kid would. Inside the hospital they don’t have to make their own decisions they just have to go with the schedule the doctor’s schedule. At the beginning of the film the audience sees all the patients walking up to a window for their daily medication. By doing this at the beginning of the movie it show that they are suffering numerous health problems in their late adulthood and have to be cared for in a Mental Hospital. Living under the schedule of the doctors it shows the patients have grown to fear them until McMurphy breaks them out the hospital to go fishing. I think the patients probably have never had the opportunity to make their own decisions and be in control of their life. So seeing them they all have different emotions that they had never experienced it shows the audience them developing as youth would. I think McMurphy symbolizes change for the patients at the mental hospital, because the nurse has them so controlled by preying on the patients fears. McMurphy helps the men get a backbone learn how to stand up for them making them grow and develop as a group. In the film One Flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest the setting is in a mental hospital with patients varying from different mental disorders. The main character Randall Murphy is brought into the hospital from a Jail where he was sent for statutory rape. In the movie he does not show any mental illnesses but rather he is trying to avoid jail time and do the rest of his sentence in a mental hospital. As he enters the Mental hospital you see numerous patients such as “ Billy Bibbit, a nervous, stuttering young man; Charlie Cheswick , a man disposed to childish fits of temper; Martini , who is delusional; Dale Harding , a high-strung, well-educated paranoid; Taber , who is belligerent and profane; and "Chief" Bromden , a silent Native American believed to be deaf and mute” (Wikipedia). In this film they Depict Billy Bibbit as boy in an older man’s body, the reason for that is he can be controlled very quickly and will be obedient if he feels threatened. In the movie the head Nurse at the Mental Hospital would guilt him by mentioning his mother, showing that Billy may have been controlled by his mother in his younger years never really growing out of it. When Billy sleeps with a woman at the end of the show, the Nurse threatens to tell his Mother. Due to Billy’s high amount of stressors and his mood disorders (page 394 ) connected with his Mother and if she were to find out something bad he did. This later resulted in Billy committing suicide influenced on stressors that can be linked to depression or “negative life events as a well as family history played significant roles in the development of mood disorders,” (Cui & Valliant Page 394). From this quote and theory in the book you can see that if the Nurse had not threatened Billy to tell his Mom about the situation, he would not have been stressed out and made a harsh decision. Another character in the movie One Flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest is Chief Bromden who is a tall Native American that everyone in the Mental Hospital thinks is Deaf and Mute. The reason they believe he is deaf and mute is he never reacts to anyone in the facility due to fear of getting in trouble. So by using Deaf and mute as a way to avoid human interaction so he will be left alone. In the movie they are playing basketball and the call him “stupid and retarded, but later he goes on to scoring baskets and reacting to what McMurphy says,” showing him beginning to break out from avoiding the other patients. With Chief you see the Facial Feedback Hypothesis (page 313) where chief pretends to be deaf but when he scores the basket he smiles showing that it may be cause he experiencing happiness or excitement as an emotion. All of the patients in the mental hospital were mentally challenged in one way or the other. Throughout the film McMurphy challenges each patient interacting with them representing to them freedom or life. They meet through the movie for Group therapy to resolve issues or problems (page 417). It is led by a Nurse who uses manipulation to the patients while McMurphy rebels the other patients start respecting McMurphy as their leader. McMurphy later uses Chief to Jump over the fence and steal the boss with all the patients. He takes them on the boat and they begin fishing breaking not only out of their hospital, but also breaking out of their own fear of being free. Bandura’s Reciprocal Determinism (page 366) could be considered what was happening here with the cast with the change of environment (on the lake), behavior (rebellious), personal/cognitive factors. The patients become more united as a group and friends even though they all have different personalities.  The director’s intent in this movie is showing different patients, with different mental illnesses, and how life was in there under the authority of a strict staff limiting them from grow to their full potential. But before McMurphy arrives to the Mental hospital the movies shows that it was very strict environment and all the patients feared the authority above them. This contributes to a film where you see each patient react in different ways to the main character McMurphy.  Many Psychological fields are relevant to One Flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest. Behaviorism is a common theme for the film as you see the patient’s behavior change when variables in the environment change. Each patient in the mental hospital has different characteristics making them make different choices relating to Humanistic Psychology. Having a film with the majority of the cast having mental disabilities it has the opportunity to relate to cognitive psychology seeing all the patients in the same environment go through decision making to follow McMurphy or stay under the authority of the Nurses. At the end of the Film the main character McMurphy escapes from the mental hospital representing freedom to all the patients and symbolizing to them that there is a life beyond the walls of the mental hospital. The character McMurphy represents the outside world and a rebellious spirit that won’t listen to authority. All the patients idolize him and follow him as a leader which results in them having their boundaries pushed and encouraged to not fear the nurses. During the whole film McMurphy is under a Case Study (page 15) as the Mental Hospital is evaluating him to see what is wrong with him. This film is an accurate vision of different disabilities and how life with them is, giving the audience the view that they are individuals to that deserved to be treated like everyone else. Behavioral, Psychoanalytic, Humanistic and Cognitive Psychology references and examples are used throughout the film One Flew over a Cuckoo’s nest making it a great film study for a student looking for examples of Psychology Fields.  In the film One Flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest patient Randal McMurphy is brought into a mental hospital from jail, claiming he is mentally sick so he doesn’t have to do his sentence in jail. As he enters the Mental hospital you see numerous patients such as “ Billy Bibbit, a nervous, stuttering young man; Charlie Cheswick , a man disposed to childish fits of temper; Martini , who is delusional; Dale Harding , a high-strung, well-educated paranoid; Taber , who is belligerent and profane; and "Chief" Bromden , a silent Native American believed to be deaf and mute” (Wikipedia). This film addresses many different human growth and development issues. The majorities of these men acts childish or are very insecure and live in fear. The main nurse knows that these issues are from earlier in their life when they have seen something tragic. An example of this is Billy Bibbit who has tried committed suicide numerous times suffering from depression and lives in fear from authority being influenced very easily. Billy has Post Traumatic Stress and you can tell when confronted by a nurse or a figure of authority he stutters in fear of them. Later in the film McMurphy finds out that most of the patients are in the hospital by choice because they would rather have a structure and be told what to do, rather than be independent in society. This shows that as these men have developed and grew up that they have had aid and that they rely on help everyday they don’t want to stand on their own two legs. McMurphy symbolizes freedom and pushes the patients and their disabilities by making them break out of their preferred controlled lifestyle. Throughout the movie the nurses use EST Electroshock therapy given to patients who misbehave or act up putting them in more fear of the authority above them. Cognitive development is seen when McMurphy steals a bus and take the male patients out to fishing, even though the adults they act as happy as kids experiencing this freedom for the first time. Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory can be seen as the patients are fishing at first they starred like it was in their mental structure and the interaction with the other patients they would go head and go fishing catching fish. The Chief is a tall Native American that plays deaf and mute the majority of the movie later exposing he was faking the disabilities. Cigarettes are smoked by the majority of the patients to relief stress or to relax. From the way the group of men interacts in the beginning you can tell as children they did not have a normal life probably resulting in Moral Development or Antisocial behavior. Billy Bibbit later commits suicide in the movie after being threatened by the nurse. Billy lived in fear of his mother probably from growing up under her and living in fear in his developing years. Billy had a past history of suicide attempts before he actually committed suicide. Group Therapy was used in the film as well and the nurse would confront Billy about his past attempts leaving him stuttering or flustered. Throughout the film McMurphy is looked up to by all the other patients representing freedom from the outside world.  This film received won five Academy Awards, Six Golden Globes, and six BAFTA awards for various actors’ performances. This film did well in the box office when it came out in 1975. Wikipedia states “The film is considered to be one of the greatest American films,” (Wikipedia). This movie too many at that time brought up the discussion what is mentally unstable; these questions are brought up from different performances of disabilities by the actors.  Though the film One Flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest does not have characters in their teens or younger years, it still can relate to different parts of growth and development. McMurphy finds out in the middle of the movie, in a group therapy session that must of the patients are in the hospital voluntarily. Reasons for this maybe that they are still need to be taken care of just like a kid would. Inside the hospital they don’t have to make their own decisions they just have to go with the schedule the doctor’s schedule. At the beginning of the film the audience sees all the patients walking up to a window for their daily medication. By doing this at the beginning of the movie it show that they are suffering numerous health problems in their late adulthood and have to be cared for in a Mental Hospital. Living under the schedule of the doctors it shows the patients have grown to fear them until McMurphy breaks them out the hospital to go fishing. I think the patients probably have never had the opportunity to make their own decisions and be in control of their life. So seeing them they all have different emotions that they had never experienced it shows the audience them developing as youth would. I think McMurphy symbolizes change for the patients at the mental hospital, because the nurse has them so controlled by preying on the patient's fears. McMurphy helps the men get a backbone learn how to stand up for them making them grow and develop as a group.

Many Psychological fields are relevant to One Flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest. Behaviorism is a common theme for the film as you see the patient’s behavior change when variables in the environment change. Each patient in the mental hospital has different characteristics making them make different choices relating to Humanistic Psychology. Having a film with the majority of the cast having mental disabilities it has the opportunity to relate to cognitive psychology seeing all the patients in the same environment go through decision making to follow McMurphy or stay under the authority of the Nurses. At the end of the Film the main character McMurphy escapes from the mental hospital representing freedom to all the patients and symbolizing to them that there is a life beyond the walls of the mental hospital. The character McMurphy represents the outside world and a rebellious spirit that won’t listen to authority. All the patients idolize him and follow him as a leader which results in them having their boundaries pushed and encouraged to not fear the nurses. During the whole film McMurphy is under a Case Study (page 15) as the Mental Hospital is evaluating him to see what is wrong with him. This film is an accurate vision of different disabilities and how life with them is, giving the audience the view that they are individuals to that deserved to be treated like everyone else. Behavioral, Psychoanalytic, Humanistic and Cognitive Psychology references and examples are used throughout the film One Flew over a Cuckoo’s nest making it a great film study for a student looking for examples of Psychology Fields.



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