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Mental Asylum
- By Gerald P Njuguna
- Published September 8th, 2008
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Have you ever got a chance to watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
The movie was the first ever creation after It Happened One Night, that came out in the year 1934, to win all five Academy nominations for Best Picture, Actor in a Lead Role, Actress in a Lead Role, Director and Screenplay and with damned good reason.
But if you have seen this flick, then I am sure that you cannot help but praise Nicholson's (lead) amazing depiction of a character of what was metaphorically the only sane person in the whole hospital. Apart from Jack Nicholson, all the other role players were nothing more than stereotypes, who were intended to dramatize our perceptions.
If we take the example of Nurse Rachet, she is an extremely “calm but unyielding tyrant."
She used to perform an extreme, icy control over all of patients on her floor. She was more than a nurse. She was playing the role of a nurse, and yet at the same time she was representing the clinical, unsupportive mental institution that was utterly insensitive to its patients' needs. As far as the use of electroconvulsive shock therapy is concerned, it is horribly exploited in the movie. You can see how Nicholson is strapped down, tortured and zapped with
high voltage without the benefit of a general anesthetic.
After having resided inside of two mental institutions, I can confidently claim with the help of my experience that this portrayal of modern "sanitoriums" is nothing more than just utter nonsense. It is true that I liked the movie, but I really laughed at the concept and situation behind it.
It is true that once these mental institutions just similar to prisons where patients were abused like animals. Yet, those days are gone. If I have to share my experience, then I am proud to say that my treatment was given with a factor of confidentiality as well as lots of respect by my doctors alike.
Frankly speaking, I must mention this point that I even met lots of patients who looked, acted and spoke just like everyone else. In fact, I strongly belief that since we were all there concentrating as well as working on our various mental issues that were linked in an emotional manner with each other, we were probably healthier than an average personality who is walking on the street.
After all these things, I would like to comment that you all must go and watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest if you haven't seen it. But I would also like to comment that you must watch it for the sake of entertainment and nothing else.
The movie was the first ever creation after It Happened One Night, that came out in the year 1934, to win all five Academy nominations for Best Picture, Actor in a Lead Role, Actress in a Lead Role, Director and Screenplay and with damned good reason.
But if you have seen this flick, then I am sure that you cannot help but praise Nicholson's (lead) amazing depiction of a character of what was metaphorically the only sane person in the whole hospital. Apart from Jack Nicholson, all the other role players were nothing more than stereotypes, who were intended to dramatize our perceptions.
If we take the example of Nurse Rachet, she is an extremely “calm but unyielding tyrant."
She used to perform an extreme, icy control over all of patients on her floor. She was more than a nurse. She was playing the role of a nurse, and yet at the same time she was representing the clinical, unsupportive mental institution that was utterly insensitive to its patients' needs. As far as the use of electroconvulsive shock therapy is concerned, it is horribly exploited in the movie. You can see how Nicholson is strapped down, tortured and zapped with
After having resided inside of two mental institutions, I can confidently claim with the help of my experience that this portrayal of modern "sanitoriums" is nothing more than just utter nonsense. It is true that I liked the movie, but I really laughed at the concept and situation behind it.
It is true that once these mental institutions just similar to prisons where patients were abused like animals. Yet, those days are gone. If I have to share my experience, then I am proud to say that my treatment was given with a factor of confidentiality as well as lots of respect by my doctors alike.
Frankly speaking, I must mention this point that I even met lots of patients who looked, acted and spoke just like everyone else. In fact, I strongly belief that since we were all there concentrating as well as working on our various mental issues that were linked in an emotional manner with each other, we were probably healthier than an average personality who is walking on the street.
After all these things, I would like to comment that you all must go and watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest if you haven't seen it. But I would also like to comment that you must watch it for the sake of entertainment and nothing else.