You know, all of the elements of this film are fantastic, but I do have one major qualm with it: I felt Nurse Rached's at the end, although brilliantly played by Louise Fletcher, went over the line with regards to her character. Before that, it felt like she was genuinely interested in the patients' health, but had a rather rigid philosophy as to how to achieve that. At the end, she just becomes pure evil. The film insists on making points bigger than it should. Still, very entertaining but disturbing picture of human collapse (and growth) within a mental institution. A classic, but not one of my all time favorites.

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But then that is the point of Nurse Rached, she really doesn't care for the patient's health, she cares more about herself and absolute control. And honestly it might not be pure evil, but I actually know people like Nurse Rached in real life, there are people like that who are so control hungry that they need to put down people like that to put them in their place, and many time it happens subconciously.

I thought the scene this scene showed her selfish controlling side: the heads-that-be decide that McMurphy was not insane and should be sent back to the work farm, but then Nurse Rached with a slight smile states she wants for him to stay.

If she would be more wicked, more nasty then her charatcer would have not been so believable. She is one of those people in life that are the real kind of evil. She is a bitch, she has control over the people, and doesn't think highly of the ward members. She enjoys control and thinks confomrity and degradtion is the remidy for the patients. She is just so subtle, so eerie, so real. She isn't some nasty villain that twirls their mustache while holding the bomb, not the loud angry villain, not the Hitler who commands people at their will, she is the real villain in life. The one teacher at school who cencors your hard work. The one that tells you can't do that. The one parent who you can never please. She is that, a true villain, and she is so subtle about it that unless you under stand the world of anti-conformity, anti-conservative, you would not understand why she is so subtle. Read the book and you will hate her even more.