Comparison of A Beautiful Mind and One Flew Over the Cuckoo

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Both One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and A Beautiful Mind are award winning movies which closely analyze psychological behaviour and behaviour modification. The movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, starring Jack Nicholson, is about a common criminal who others believe has psychological problems which result to him being admitted to a mental institution as a form of punishment. At this institute McMurphy, Nicholson, builds close relationships with the other patients in his ward. He helps these new friends in so many ways, in fact, some of them are not truly psychologically ill, they are just coerced into believing it, or acting it, similar to McMurphy. The other movie, A Beautiful Mind, is about John Nash, Russel Crow, a mathematician who can break down codes. It starts off with Nash as a student at Princeton who begins to develop schizophrenia and hallucinations. He has a few break downs which require him to take drugs as a form of treatment. The film continues with a lot of suspense and drama which conclude to a peaceful end. A Beautiful Mind is based on a true story, where as to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is purely fictional.

One obvious difference within these two movies is that John Nash from A Beautiful Mind

To conclude each movie both One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and A Beautiful Mind have different outcomes for the end. In A Beautiful Mind John learns to cope with his hallucinations and ends up continuing doing what he loves while winning a noble prize. In contrast, McMurphy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ends up receiving a frontal labodomy for his misconduct which cmplete makes him another person. As a result to McMurphy being fried like a potato, his good friend Chief which he also helped sufficates McMurphy so that he doesn't have to suffer or be known for the new person he is. Thus A Beautiful Mind has a positive outcome, where as to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has a tragic ending.

is definitely suffering from schizophrenia, a psychological disorder, that literally makes him go crazy until he takes medication to help him. On the other hand, McMurphy was not psychologically ill. He was sent to the institution because others thought he was crazy due to his baliderance and lazy, bad attitude. He only appeared crazy when he misbehaved, helped the other patients, or when his brain was fried as a result to behaviour modification at the hospital.

In both, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and A Beautiful Mind Nash and McMurphy have medical personal which greatly influence on their lives. For example, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest McMurphy h

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