Sorry I'm late by many decades, but I've finally got around to watching the movie ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST.
Look, great acting by great actors. Well directed, etc, etc.
But lets face it. It's a movie whose male characters are all Beta males, even the head of the Facility who immediately has rapport with Nicholson's sex predator character. The only Alpha character is Nurse Ratched.
So begins the sexist Murphy's need to dominate women out of his own Beta male 'arsehole' insecurity - and Nurse Ratched the Alpha is a 'threat' to that insecurity. Thus Murphy exploits the other Patients to gain his dominance for his own self-centred ego needs to use against the Alpha Female. Sure, he creates all the 'fun' via chaos to create the illusion that is what they need. It's a dangerous thing to play with the minds of the mentally vulnerable and that's exactly what the Murphy character does - especially when it goes against the current of what a number of them 'voluntarily' put themselves in for. Eventually it all comes down to that very narrow bottleneck and results in a young male patient 'forced' into losing his virginity to a prostitute just to satisfy the 'need' of Murphy's ego and Beta persona having trouble dealing with an Alpha female that wouldn't submit to him - as 'all' women should, as nothing more than sex objects. She 'rules' in the name of 'Professionalism' and he just can't cope with that sort of rejection... that 'cold' look rejection that has to stay on top of things. I mean - was making a Patient sleep with a Prostitute really worth suicide because of the 'conflict' between an Alpha Female and Murphy? Who knows, maybe that young Patient could have overcome his (Beta) problems to become an Alpha male? The kind Murphy would have hated also.
All in all, from what I've heard about this film over the decades - it is good. But I believe the characters are misplaced: Murphy is the Villain, Nurse Ratched was the victim. I mean - this is a story written by some guy who was an Orderly and willing 'guinea-pigged' himself for Psychedelics. Then based the narration on an Amerindian/White half-caste who was Schizoid and saw everyone as machines. C'mon!!!

Going by that - in 'reality', its obvious that Murphy didn't fly over the Cuckoo Nest, he undermined it and destroyed it (cost of a Patient's life and a man's job, etc) with the Alpha Ratched barely keeping it together against a sexual predator and sexist Beta male who used everyone and anything to demean her and break her for his pathetic Beta male insecurities.
Having worked in the Psyche Industry myself. I've worked with many a Nurse Ratched, except they were women who were just doing their job as 'professionally' as they could and I've seen many a patient like Murphy whom needs the world to revolve around them and their selfish needs.
So it is a superb film. True. But its pretty obvious that the whole story displaces the Villain and the Hero characters in the wrong light. But hey, this was a story written by a drugged out Orderly, narrated by a Schizoid character and made into a film by an Industry plagued by male Sex Predators and Sexists who paint the picture of a woman like Nurse Ratched as a hard nut to crack and that its her fault for not 'submitting'.
Movie quality: 5 stars.
Acting: 5 stars.
Story: An absolute load of rubbish, unless you want to 'glorify' Sex Predators - which Hollywood has been renowned to do.
Nicholson's Character: Total Anti-Hero!
Fletcher's Character: True Hero in the face of adversity.
PS: Hi Margaret. Like my review?