Right. Cuckoo nest was the Three Mile Island for deinstitutionalization. Leftist banged the drum for patient rights. Patients were portrayed as political prisoners. Drugs and community services were supposed to be the solution. It was all a charade to destabilize civil society. The humane thing to do is protect the insane from themselves and others by taking them off the streets. If they were in Canada, they’d be euthanized.
Actually TWO movies were the cause in getting the mental hospitals closed down. TITICUT FOLLIES(1967) and ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST.