The Movie begins with a car's headlights move across the screen as the credit’s role. A nurse, we later learn to be Nurse Ratched arrives at the locked, barred entry way to a state mental hospital where patients, nurses, and orderlies were going about the distribution of medication. Pills were being dispensed from the Nurses' Station, a large booth with sliding glass panels.

An energetic, comedic, and somewhat of a rebellious patient Randel Patrick McMurphy, know as Mac to the patients, is escorted into the ward where he meets some of

One night McMurphy plans a party with alcohol and his two friends. After bribing the night watchman with booze, he smuggles Candy and Rose into the ward late at night for a wild drinking party after the Nurse has left. Although the patients enjoy themselves, the entire ward is quickly destroyed. McMurphy has an opportunity to leave, but hesitates when young Billy Bibbit expresses disappointment at his leaving and then wishes a date with Candy. McMurphy persuades Candy to sleep with Billy so that he can lose his virginity. Billy is wheeled over to Candy by the other patients and McMurphy challenges him with a bet. The next morning, the ward orderlies find the place in an awful state and McMurphy had fallen asleep on the floor. The slam of the locked gate as it closes alerts McMurphy to the Nurse Ratched’s arrival. Nurse Pilbow discovers Billy Bibbit in bed with Candy in one of the rooms. The patients applaud him when he joins them in the ward smiling. But Billy is forced to explain everything and is forced to feel guilty about enjoying sex by the nurse. Threatening to inform his mother about his behavior, Nurse Ratched knows how to expose Billy's weaknesses. For a split moment he did not studder, her words resulted in Billy stammering again and feeling so guilty that he commits suicide by slitting his own throat. McMurphy is unable to leave through the window in time but might have escaped to freedom during the confusion. He is unable to leave a fallen friend, feeling personally responsible for Billy he enters the room. When the Nurse instructs everyone to calm down and go on with our daily routine, he attempts to strangle her for having contributed to Billy's suicide. He locks his hands around her throat. McMurphy is then restrained and led away. Rumors spread around the ward that he has escaped, or that he has been brought upstairs. In the middle of the night, McMurphy is returned to the ward lobotomized.

He calmly asks the assistant Nurse Pilbow about the ingredients of his "horse-pill" medications during one of the compulsory lineups for pill delivery. For his resistance and questioning of the rules, he is accused by the nurses that he is upset. When the nurse offers an alternative method to taking pills orally, McMurphy decides to ‘take his pill.’ But does not actually swallow the pill only spits it out when he walks away.

The lighting of a scene helps to create a mood. In the beginning of the movie we are introduced to the credits with a silhouetted vehicle and headlights. This gives the audience a feeling of helplessness. This dark silence is more powerful then a monster on the screen, it creates the unknown. We do not know what is coming next.

McMurphy's lessons on basketball are proven effective; as he is able to successfully start games with the patients and guards. With his extraordinary height, Chief standing at one end of the court with hands held high dunks the ball several times and takes the ball away at the other end of the court. After learning that he won't be released in 68 days as he would if he was at the prison farm, McMurphy asks Nurse Ratched and the other patients about the length that he would have to stay. This is when he realizes that most of the patients are voluntary and self-committed, and have the freedom to leave at any time if they choose. The patients are not crazy merely helpless in society.

Milos Forman directed another extremely popular film in 1984 called “Amedeus” about Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart. Flashbacks inform the audience of the tireless brilliance of Mozart, and Salieri's struggle with Mozart’s music out-composing any of his own work. Both “Amedeus” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” support the auteur theory in several ways. Both of the stories are based on events that bring up society’s issues. One of which brings up the jealous rage of one individual and the other that questions society’s views in general. Bo

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