"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" ? Nurse Ratched
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is a novel by author Ken Kesey published in 1962. The novel uses the asylum as a metaphor for American-style social formations, with strong anti-establishment implications.
Handled by director Milos Forman, its complex ideological background brings a special sheen to the movie. It also gives the audience more room for speculation.
This asylum is not so much a hospital for the insane as it is a hell that drives the sane insane.
Nurse Ratched is undoubtedly the face of the institution.
She never takes human rights into account, preemptively treating them all as insane, treating her patients as prisoners, and ruling them oppressively with modern medical equipment.
In this extremely high-pressure environment, the patients are gradually reduced to totalitarian walking corpses.
But the head nurse, Rachel, is a paradoxical being; any other person could find the right words to be judged in a certain definite light, but Rachel is different.
On the one hand, she is the dedicated, respected and more authoritative staff member of the asylum, who in her particular capacity upholds her principles and is meticulous in her work.
On the other hand, she is a ruthless regulator, an emotionless screw in the cold institutional machine that helps it crush the dignity of the patient as an individual.
In every social environment, there are always things that are unresolved, such as the judgment of human values.
In this madhouse, the patient has no autonomy in life. In front of the rules, people lose the power to fight for a normal and free life.