The Movie begins with a car's headlights move across the screen as the credit's role. A nurse, we later learn to be Nurse Ratched arrives at the locked, barred entry way to a state mental hospital where patients, nurses, and orderlies were going about the distribution of medication. Pills were being dispensed from the Nurses' Station, a large booth with sliding glass panels.

An energetic, comedic, and somewhat of a rebellious patient Randel Patrick McMurphy, know as Mac to the patients, is escorted into the ward where he meets some of these unusual peopl

McMurphy's lessons on basketball are proven effective; as he is able to successfully start games with the patients and guards. With his extraordinary height, Chief standing at one end of the court with hands held high dunks the ball several times and takes the ball away at the other end of the court. After learning that he won't be released in 68 days as he would if he was at the prison farm, McMurphy asks Nurse Ratched and the other patients about the length that he would have to stay. This is when he realizes that most of the patients are voluntary and self-committed, and have the freedom to leave at any time if they choose. The patients are not crazy merely helpless in society.

In the film's conclusion, Chief realizes that Mac has had the surgery on his brain. He knows that McMurphy has lost his will and never would be able to escape with him to Canada. He hugs his friend and then ends his misery to free him from the confinement in an act of mercy killing. He smothers and suffocates McMurphy with a pillow then proving that a single person can still overcome oppressive conditions, he picks up the marble wash station from the tub room and smashes through the window with it. He escapes from the hospital, walking away into the world. The other patients remain in the locked ward of the hospital after everything that has unfolded.

The color of the hospital is extremely uniformed; white that is very clean. This helps to enforce the control and power on the patients. Towards the end of the film when Nurse Ratched finds her hat dirty on the floor after the party the night before, this is a sign of weakness. The control and power has been compromised. This is shown through the nurse's face when she looks at the hat.

The patients are organized and controlled through a rigid set of authoritarian rules and regulations that McMurphy likes to question. He tries to anger Nurse Ratched by a struggle to win the other patients over to his way of thinking and behaving. He does this by establishing a political majority, to lead various group uprisings, and to emphasize how they have been rejected their basic freedoms. In the next group meeting, McMurphy begs Nurse Ratched to rearrange the 'schedule' so that they could watch the opener of the 1963 World Series baseball game on television, adding. To discourage his disengaging challenge and to cause no disruption to the ward's schedule, she refuses because of the other men who like the schedule. She then proposes a vote to decide the matter. Only three votes support McMurphy's request and he can't believe it. When a Monopoly game between some of the patients in the tub room leads to a heated argument, McMurphy sprays them with water to cool them down, and then tells Harding, one of those which didn't vote for his request for a rearrangement of the schedule. Again, McMurphy bets the patients that he can escape incarceration by lifting and smashing his way out of the ward with a heavy, marble-sided watering station in the tub room. He plans to go downtown with Cheswick drink some beer and watch the game. Harding bets $25 that McMurphy isn't strong enough. McMurphy moves Billy out of the way before attempting to do the lift. McMurphy struggles boldly to pick up the weight but he cannot lift it. As he walks from the room, he turns toward the patients refusing to acknowledge defeat and holding that it is better to try and fail than to accept an inadequate situation.

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In another evaluation session with Dr. Spivey after a four-week stay, McMurphy responds to a question about whether he likes it at the hospital. McMurphy explains how Nurse Ratched had antagonized him.

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