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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1). The movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, takes place at a State Mental Institution in Oregon during the 1960s. The focus of the movie was on a variety of mentally ill patients under the care of a very controlling and detested Nurse Ratched along with her overly aggressive assistants. A man by the name Randall McMurphy is committed to the ward and was previously in jail for violent acts and having sex with a minor. He is accused numerous times of faking a mental disorder and is both exceedingly rebellious and impulsive. McMurphy appears to enjoy acting this way, although Nurse Ratched and her staff scowl upon his behavior. McMurphy seems to be very therapeutic for the other patients in his ward, helping them out with their problems indirectly and giving them the confidence they needed in the first place. At the end of the movie, however, McMurphy is not as fortunate. After violently attacking Nurse Ratched out of hatred, he is forced to undergo a lobotomy, leaving him a vegetable. Perhaps the