The book wasn’t that great. I couldn’t finish it.
The ridiculous exaggeration of the state of mental hospitals led to a landmark ACLU lawsuit, with the yellow journalism assistance of Geraldo Rivera, which "won" the "freedom" of mental patients, who were then released en masse to become a nuclear explosion of "The Homeless" on the streets of every city in the 1980s.
Michael Douglas may be a suave actor but as a producer he has been a demon to this nation with his twin propaganda films - this film, and the absurdist paranoid film "The China Syndrome" that led America to stop its nuclear energy expansion cold.
ECT was a life saver therapy for treatment resistant major depression. This movie pretty well ended it’s use. Who knows how many suicides and needless suffering could have been prevented.
Sometimes a Great Notion is a 1971 American drama film from a book by this drug-addled screwball, directed by Paul Newman and starring Newman, Henry Fonda, Michael Sarrazin and Lee Remick. The cast also includes Richard Jaeckel in an Academy Award-nominated performance.
It’s pretty good.
The closing down of insane asylums by the Democreats and the loosing of the inmates onto the public streets and in our cities and towns that continues to this day has resulted in horrific mayhem and loss of innocent lives in the name of the so-called dignity of the mentally ill and the insane. When is the left finally going to get its comeuppance for unleashing this terrible scourge upon America’s communities?
“Mmmm, Juicy Fruit!”
Grave syntactical flaw in the first sentence! FAIL!
The phrase "one of the only films to ever receive the big five Oscars" is awkward and logically imprecise.
"One of the only" is a problematic construction because "only" already implies exclusivity. Grammatically, it creates a clash: "one of" suggests membership in a larger set, while "only" suggests a set of one.
A clearer phrasing would be "one of the few films to ever receive…" or simply "among the rare films to receive…."
Is this what we have come to expect from The Guardian?!
Regards,
I was instantly captivated!
The novel's story is told through the eyes of Chief Bromden, whose hallucinations and paranoid visions create a surreal, almost dreamlike portrayal of the asylum. The fog machine, distorted perceptions of authority, and allegorical elements give the book an unsettling, otherworldly quality.
The film shifts the perspective to that of Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), converting the story into a more straightforward, character-driven drama. The surreal elements were stripped away, leaving a gritty but conventional depiction of institutional life.
The novel's surreal and allegorical tone were discarded. The hallucinatory critique of institutional conformity was reduced to a more-literal battle of wills between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched.
A great shame!
Regards,
one of the only films
Tis alone says AI, and what else can I say?
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is also 50 this year. And there was never a period when it was not being shown in theaters somewhere, even today. In my opinion, a much better picture than OFOTCN.