One Flew Over The Cuckoo S Nest Nurse Ratched Neck Brace

I wonder how accurate this scene was and also how things are different now 40 years later.

One flew over the cuckoo s nest nurse ratched neck brace. She s spent years ensuring the right doctors and aides work with her underscoring that she holds complete control over her domain. Nurse mildred ratched is the main antagonist of the late ken kesey s 1962 novel one flew over the cuckoo s nest and its 1975 film adaptation of the same name as well as the eponymous protagonist villain of the 2020 tv series ratched she is the cold sadistic head nurse of the salem oregon state hospital where she dominates her patients into submission with iron discipline and cruel punishments. The men now play his games use his deceptions speak his language adopt his nicknames and whisper legends about him. A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.

Another video for year 11 to analyse here at. At the end of the film nurse ratched s insidious control is as damaged as her neck in its brace. Yet even after mcmurphy is physically subdued his influence lives on in defiance of nurse ratched. Directed by milos forman.

With jack nicholson louise fletcher michael berryman peter brocco. Masterpiece of acting by jack nicholson. A former army nurse nurse ratched represents the oppressive mechanization dehumanization and emasculation of modern society in bromden s words the combine. She wants doctors who will accede to her control and she wants aides who will carry out her sadistic wishes seamlessly and without dissent.

Bromden sums up nurse ratched s ward. Her nickname is big nurse which sounds like big brother the name used in george orwell s novel 1984 to refer to an oppressive and all knowing authority.