Cuckoo's Nest Power

The problematic christ, and struggle between male and female power. Veronica Roth once said, “Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.” In the Novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest written by Ken Kessey in 1962, the story of a man named Randal Mcmurphy who is brought onto the ward after a court decision, is told through the eyes of a schizophrenic named Cheif Bromden who has frequent hallucinations. When Mcmurphy arrives to the hospital there is a change in the hierarchy as he constantly undermines Nurse Ratched's authority and oppressive behavior. As much as this story is about Mcmurphy’s christ like presence, it is also about the struggle of demaculation and feminine power. Through his screenplay adaptation in Creative use of cinematic technique, Milos Forman, in his adaption of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, portrays Ken Kesey's character of a Randall Mcmurphy as an entrapped christ-like figure shows the conflict of individual freedom and self-expression rebelling against an oppressive society and the overall struggle for power between males and females in the shock treatment scene, …show more content…
The principles of tight framing and character centering on the screen are used to convey Randal Mcmurphy as an oppressed individual who struggles to find power against the authority figures. Forman’s uses the the cinematic techniques of right to left motion, as well as high-angle camera shots, and low-angle shots disclose unconformity and definitive power roles towards the end of the film. Forman’s adaptation of the novel stays very true to the overall meaning of kessey’s counterculture ideals, while omitting certain facades of his