1975 American drama film based on the novel of the same name, Milos. Directed by Foreman, Jack. Nicholson, Louis. Fletcher, Brad. Starring Daurif.
Mike. Murphy wants to escape the prison labor and pretends to be mentally ill and is sent to the mental hospital, but this is not where he thinks, he lacks patience for the order and regulations of the mental hospital, constantly communicates with patients, actively questions and resists the authority of the head nurse, because of his arrival, the hospital is unusual, and the patients welcome him a lot.
The head nurse is the ruler of the patients in the hospital, relying on rigid rules and schedules for the same work, the doctor sees her as a good nurse, and in the eyes of the patient, she is a demon who relies on fear, violence and punishment to maintain her authority. Each public discussion with the patient directly pokes at the weakness and weakness of the patient, regardless of the patient's personal feelings, relying on high-pressure means to control the order here. She was dissatisfied with Mike, an activist, and flatly refused his legitimate request to lower the volume of the hospital's music. In response to his democratic rejection of his request to change the schedule for patients to watch baseball games, Mike finally asked everyone to agree to raise his hand and then said that there were eighteen patients in the hospital, and the Indian nickname Chief raised his hand, and refused on the grounds that time had passed.
The head nurse deprived the patients of the right to express and move freely, and the patients became obedient and cowardly out of fear, until Mike bet them that he would lift the washstand and smash the window to escape, and then said that at least he had tried, and thus despised their resentment and repression without changing their courage. Mike's actions shaken the Chieftain's heart, and he has been pretending to be deaf and dumb, only responding to Mike.
Unable to bear it, Mack used the chief to climb out of the fence and drive a bus to lead the patients out to go fishing in the sea, enjoying a free day without incident. The doctor wants to send Mike back to jail because he doesn't appear to be mentally ill, but the head nurse proposes to leave him in the hospital, and she wants to take revenge on him.
The patient, Cheswick, excitedly asks the head nurse for the cigarette he deserves, but in order to stabilize his mood, Mike breaks the glass of the management room and takes out the cigarette for him, and is beaten by the nurse, and the chief goes to help. As a result, all three were subjected to painful electrotherapy. Mack resolutely left this ghost place, he took advantage of the nurse's work, bribed the duty officer, called two women to party all night in the hospital, made a big fuss, in order to satisfy Billy's love for his girlfriend, he let them both share a room, watching all the patients in the carnival, he also gradually fell asleep.
The next day the head nurse came over in a fit of rage and openly threatened to tell Billy's mother about it, and Billy had an Oedipus complex, and her mother's attitude determined his life and death, preferring to betray his friends and commit suicide in despair. Mike couldn't bear to go up and strangle the head nurse and was knocked unconscious by the guards, and then naturally he was brutally treated, he was made a fool by the hospital's frontal lobotomy, the chief sadly picked up the pillow to help him free, and then forcefully lifted the washstand and smashed the window to escape. The rest of the patients cheered for Mike.
The film expresses dissatisfaction with the American social system at that time, promotes the resistance to repressed individual liberalism, accuses the cry and lament of human nature under the rule of the powerful, and evokes the American spirit of free self.
