One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is ranked number thirty-three out of one-hundred films on the AFI’s (American Film Institute’s) One Hundred Greatest Films of All Time list, and rightfully so. I first watched this film in my sociology class entitled: Deviant Behavior. My professor emphasized the importance of how the people in the film were treated. This film captures the flaws of the mental health care system and shows that how people are treated effects their perception of themselves, others, and the world. This film is based in a mental hospital. Here the main character, Randle Patrick McMurphy, is admitted in a forged attempt to escape his six month sentence to a work farm prison. Ironically, the head nurse at the mental hospital, Nurse
