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| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
The first film since It Happened One Night to capture the "top five" Oscars: picture (producers Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas), actor (Jack Nicholson), actress (Louise Fletcher), director (Milos Forman), and writer (Laurence Hauben and Bo Goldman). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest manages to avoid the many traps it could have fallen into: A few years earlier, for example, it might have been played for obvious countercultural messages about rebellion against the establishment. Or delivered sentimental nonsense about how the insane are somehow nearer to the truth than the ostensibly sane. Or it could have had the explicit antifeminism of Ken Kesey's novel, in which women represent the repressive civilizing forces that threaten to emasculate men. Terrific performances, a solid script, and impressively straightforward direction help the movie transcend all of these subtexts.
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