One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - The MovieThe movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, tells the story of McMurphy, an inmate, who is sent to a mental institution because he thinks he's crazy. In reality, McMurphy is sane when he arrives at the psychiatric ward, he just wants to get out of the work that prison time entails. His stay in the psychiatric ward is believed to be what drives the man mad. While in the psychiatric ward, he interacts with the patients in his ward and ends up changing their worlds completely. When two different societies come together, they will undoubtedly change each other. This is the case when McMurphy, coming from the "real" world, a society where a person can do whatever he wants, is associated with the patients of the psychiatric ward, whose lives are completely controlled by their nurses and their routine. McMurphy and the patients have a significant effect on each other. The psych ward and the world McMurphy comes from are completely different. The psychiatric ward is completely rule-based. The patients' lives are based on the routine that their nurse, Nurse Ratched, has established for them. Nurse Ratched believes the rules she sets for patients are in their best interest or are improving. Nurses have complete control over patients. They are locked in their beds every night, get up at the same time, eat at the same time and watch TV at the same time every day. The patients follow Nurse Ratched's rule by never questioning them. Basically, they have no mind of their own. McMurphy comes from a society almost opposite to that of the psychiatric ward. He has lived his whole life doing what he wants. He never had a nurse telling him what to do at all times. Being in prison shows that McMurphy has difficulty living by the rules. So living under the strict rules of the psychiatric ward will be even more difficult for him. Living in the psychiatric ward is very difficult for McMurphy at first. The patients and McMurphy can't understand each other, so socializing with them is difficult for him. When he begins to interact with them, he has a profound effect on the patients in the psychiatric ward.