During some relaxing time I couldn’t resist hitting a “About One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” reveal YouTube video. It looked iffy, I usually ignore over Photoshopped promos, but it was down time and my finger hit the tab.
I remember reading the book for a high school class, I found it riveting and later, at barely 20, when the movie came out, I found that as impressive, better than that, ‘impactful’ film I’d seen. That was my hitchhiking days, so lots of time to muse on various character plays from the movie.
That’s about it, decades later saw it and it was as riveting. That was it, life goes on. That’s why these days I like these sorts of back stories to catch up on the back story to phenomena I was witness to.
I was expecting the usual silly human story repeating much of nothing. Instead, I got impressed and impacted, yet again. I remember knowing it was filmed in a real psych facility, but had no idea of the details, …
Guess I won’t be a spoiler, trust me on this one. If you liked the movie, this will add welcome depth to why it was such a riveting movie.
As they say: Making it real.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Reveals What Most Fans NEVER Figured Out
