For the remainder, your eyes stay fixed to the screen, set inside the mental institution, white walls, locked doors, routines and crazy men. The patients who stay all live half a life; they will never know what life will be like outside of the mental institution they have no freedom. Macmurphy is different to these people which you can see straight away, as soon as he bursts in with his unpredictable manner. He is a charismatic figure and totally unforgettable. From the moment his inmates meet him they look upon him as a role model, Macmurphy is actually normal - at the start!

It is unfortunate that we, as an audience have a tendency to laugh at people with mental handicaps, but that is what makes the film so funny.

Macmurphy is taken to the boss's office immediately where he does a brilliant job in acting normal one minute and totally crazy the next. He changed the subject a lot, which he did well in because it helped avoid the subject "crazy."

Before they knew it they were all drunk and sleepy, Billy was off in bed with one of MacMurphys girlfriends, all the other crazy people were asleep including MacMurphy and Chief who were meant to have escaped by then.

"At least I tried", he shouted at his inmates.

MacMurphy did come back, without half of his brain. The doctors had obviously thought he was crazier than the likes of Martini and co., but was he? He had tried to kill someone!

MacMurphy tries hard to make the patients be like him. A large American Indian man who is meant to be deaf and dumb is named Chief by MacMurphy. Chief is in a world of his own; he can't speak or hear anyone. MacMurphy tries to get him to play Basketball! But again fails. Suddenly Chief talks and tells MacMurphy that he is in the mental institute because he is scared of the outside world, he has no courage. For the rest of the film him and MacMurphy are great friends, they even plot to escape together.

How is a mental institution doing anyone who is crazy any good? It didn't do Billy any good or MacMurphy, these two ended up dead!

Chief was very upset, he thought he was going to escape with MacMurphy to Canada. MacMurphy couldn't even walk by himself after the lobotomy. Chief did what he thought was best for MacMurphy, MacMurphy couldn't carry on living with out half of his brain, so Chief suffocated him and MacMurphys spirit would then follow Chief out of the mental institution, where MacMurphy wanted to go in the first place. Chief picked up the sink unit that MacMurphy couldn't lift and threw it through the window. Off Chief went, to live the other half of his life he hadn't yet lived.

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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)