Free at Last…
My overall impression of the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is that it was very captivating and interesting. The initial book for the movie was written by Kenneth Kesey, who at the time was a medical guinea pig himself for psychoactive drug testing at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital, CA.
He used the opportunity to interview other patients that were under the influence of those drugs, as well. During his stay at the hospital, he realized that many patients weren’t insane at all. He felt that society was trying to control those who either didn’t fit in or bent the rules.
The book was released November 1975 and became a huge success because of its views on current issues.
The story was then turned into a movie, which was …show more content…
Rumor has it, that this was a government funded program by the CIA. The drug was created for interrogation purposes. Kesey was hired on as part of the staff. He continued using the drug after the experiment was over, stealing it from the hospital during his graveyard shift. While under the “influence”, he wrote the book “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. He felt that the American government was creating drugs and methods to control a human’s mind and behavior if wanted. After reading the book, Milo Foreman couldn’t help but realize that the content of the book described the dictatorship and suppression in his own country; just as the medicine in the movie controlled the patients on the ward. The intent for both men was to reveal that modern institutions, authority figures, and government entities, along with modernization is undermining the human being in itself.
Truthfully, I love the movie and its characters. Being an optimist, I do not like the ending. However, it all makes sense. I continuously find more information and a deeper meaning to the movie and storyline. It worries me to think, what our government is capable of. It is horrible to think, that in the field of medicine, such a dark era even existed. The last lobotomy was executed in 1967; that wasn’t all that long ago. Today, there is ETC (Electroconvulsive Therapy); appraised by some but criticized by others. Some even going to the extent of calling it the “modern day”
My overall impression of the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is that it was very captivating and interesting. The initial book for the movie was written by Kenneth Kesey, who at the time was a medical guinea pig himself for psychoactive drug testing at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital, CA.
He used the opportunity to interview other patients that were under the influence of those drugs, as well. During his stay at the hospital, he realized that many patients weren’t insane at all. He felt that society was trying to control those who either didn’t fit in or bent the rules.
The book was released November 1975 and became a huge success because of its views on current issues.
The story was then turned into a movie, which was …show more content…
Rumor has it, that this was a government funded program by the CIA. The drug was created for interrogation purposes. Kesey was hired on as part of the staff. He continued using the drug after the experiment was over, stealing it from the hospital during his graveyard shift. While under the “influence”, he wrote the book “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. He felt that the American government was creating drugs and methods to control a human’s mind and behavior if wanted. After reading the book, Milo Foreman couldn’t help but realize that the content of the book described the dictatorship and suppression in his own country; just as the medicine in the movie controlled the patients on the ward. The intent for both men was to reveal that modern institutions, authority figures, and government entities, along with modernization is undermining the human being in itself.
Truthfully, I love the movie and its characters. Being an optimist, I do not like the ending. However, it all makes sense. I continuously find more information and a deeper meaning to the movie and storyline. It worries me to think, what our government is capable of. It is horrible to think, that in the field of medicine, such a dark era even existed. The last lobotomy was executed in 1967; that wasn’t all that long ago. Today, there is ETC (Electroconvulsive Therapy); appraised by some but criticized by others. Some even going to the extent of calling it the “modern day”