麦克墨菲(杰克·尼科尔森 Jack Nicholson 饰)为了逃避监狱里的强制劳动,装作精神异常,被送进了精神病院,他的到来,给死气沉沉的精神病院带来了剧烈的冲击。 麦克要求看棒球比赛的电视转播,挑战了医院严格的管理制度,受到护士长拉契特(路易丝·弗莱彻 Louise Fletcher 饰)的百般阻挠;麦克带领病人出海捕鱼,振奋了他们的精神,却让院方头痛不已。院方为了惩处麦克胆大妄为、屡犯院规,决定将他永远留在疯人院。生性自由的麦克再也无法忍受疯人院的生活,他联合病友,高大的印第安人“酋长”,开始自己的计划:飞越疯人院。 本片获1975年第48届奥斯卡最佳影片,最佳男、女主角,最佳导演和最佳改编剧本五项大奖。主人公“不自由,毋宁死”的精神在当今社会仍有很大的现实意义。
In The Nightmare, director Rodney Ascher (Room 237) has done just that. The film explores the condition commonly referred to as “sleep paralysis.” That’s a condition where someone is in bed, but totally physically immobilized. Some who suffer from the condition – including the eight subjects in this documentary – feel they are visited by something evil during these periods. Ascher lets these subjects tell their stories, then we watch them play out on screen. It’s absolutely horrifying, if not wholly rewarding.