Author: walmart

Volume 1, Issue 1

May 17, 2014

Komran Times

ENG3UI movie review, this week:
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest

Cinematography and catharsis

Special points of interest:
Various violated human rights
How music and angles of a camera can change emotions
Abuse of characters

Inside this issue:

Linnerth is a Cool Guy	2
50 cents for a Doll House	2
No One Likes / Braveheart	3
Wuthering Heights is Being Sold	3
Macbeth: Friend or Foe?	4
Witches Galore	4
Sports	5

The director using lighting in the film to arise emotion from the audience. The low lighting scheme in the main setting of the hospital, gives it a very lifeless and drab environment with it's white walls, white uniforms and the patients off-white clothes. This allows the audience to feel sorrow and sympathy towards the patients and nurses working within this awful setting.
In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, there is a minimal amount of camera angles used. However, the camera angles dramatically change when the scene has Nurse Ratched in it. Her facial expressions and mono-tone voice does not reveal her true horrid nature but when the camera does a close up of her face, it gives the a better idea of how cruel she is. It also shows that she is the one in control, and the one with the power. Camera angles help reveal her true self and when the audience realizes how cold hearted and awful she is, then the audience instantly feels sympathetic towards everyone who must interact with her on a daily basis especially her patients.
The music throughout the movie also creates emotion release from the audience. The movie rarely has any happy tunes most tunes are light and sorrowful and they become even more depressing when something horrible happens. For example when chief is about to strangle McMurphy the music begins to build up and create a suspenseful mood for the audience. Through the music the audience begins to feel anxious and scared as to what is going to happen next. After the deed is done the music becomes sad to allow the audience to grieve for the death of McMurphy.

Nurse Ratched

Violated rights

In the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, there are many violated human rights. One of the violated rights includes article 3 from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It states “...right to life, liberty and security…” Throughout the movie you can see that no one at the institution feels secure around Nurse Ratched, they are constantly abused by her. Like when Nurse Ratched threatens Billy that she’ll tell his mom when he does something

wrong.
Another article abused in this movie is article 5, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment…” Constantly throughout the movie every patient is treated degradingly, and not just by one person, but by all the nurses and staff. In almost every scene they are treated like toddlers, not grown men.

Lastly, article 11 is also violated on this movie. This article states “...presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial..” McMurphy receives no trial after the night the institution is trashed. Instead, they take him away and perform surgery on him so that he can no longer think for himself.

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Effects of abuse

The abuse from society and nurses within the film affect the characters greatly. The characters become timid and nervous by the way society has treated and viewed them. They come into the psychiatric hospital to seek help for their issues but in return they receive ill-treatment from the caretakers. So instead of their condition bettering, they seem to become more timid, depressed and anxious.
Throughout the movie we witness the characters constantly being abused by the nurses and other figures of authority. This negativity affects the society because other citizens begin to think that it is normal to treat these people so harshly but this is far from the truth. However, towards the end everyone seems to learn from their mistakes and it hints towards maybe society needs to move past the differences and learn to treat people equally.

“Michigan is the best”

Linnerth is a cool guy

Mrs. Linnerth is the coolest teacher out there. :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

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McMurphy

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