From watching the One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest movie in class today, it made it much clearer for me to understand what happened in the book as the movie was clearer than the literature, and it was visual which helps me comprehend anything better.  The movie gave me a better idea of who each character was and how they acted.  Even though the story is about chief Bromden and he was the narrator of the story in the book, in the movie he didn’t even talk for a whole first part of the movie as he pretends to not talk.  When McMurphy comes in the ward for the first time, he stirs the whole place up by being loud, spontaneous, daring, and determined to have some freedom and to gain power over the ward.  Nurse Ratched is the head and leader of the ward and whatever she says everyone there has to listen to; this becomes McMurphy’s problem in the end as he doesn’t give up the fight, but the nurse gains complete control over him by giving him a lobotomy.  McMurphy changes and/or affects every patient in the ward by influencing their actions somehow by his rebel-like attitude.  By the end, the patients all reach some kind of personal achievement and improve in some way from the influence of McMurphy, for example Billy Bibbit has his first sexual encounter with a woman as he went  on the fishing trip where that helped him bond with her and open up.  The nurse looked down upon what Billy had done even though there is nothing wrong with it and it is completely normal; she also threatens to tell Billy’s mother, making his feel ashamed and weaker.  The Chief also learns to break out of his shell and he begins to talk more and become more outgoing like his friend McMurphy.  McMurphy is the christ character in this story leading his disciples to paradise/holy land.  McMurphy throughout the book and movie also makes nurse Ratched more worried that she may lose control over the ward and the patients because McMurphy encourages everyone to cut loose from her clutches and to do what they want for once.  The fishing trip outing is a big step for all the patients who go because it gives them more independence and more self-confidence.  In the movie, the nurse had an evil stare that cut through you like knives, and she had a firm, strict, emasculating tone that she used all the time when talking to the patients.  She spoke with a tranquil volume of her voice, as that showed her commitments to the schedule and consistency of everyday.  She manipulates the patients in the ward stronger than when McMurphy arrives, as he tries to change everything up- the music, the schedule, the television, the fishing trip, escaping, etc.  In the end of the movie (I finished watching it on youtube because I couldn’t wait till Monday), I was shocked and saddened when McMurphy had to get a lobotomy; it made him like a chronic and a complete vegetable.  After trying to strangle the nurse when seeing that Billy Bibbit had killed himself, the nurse took this as the last straw and the only option to suppress his actions.  Through the whole movie, Chief’s personality and independence developed a lot causing him to almost break free from the ward after being there the longest out of anyone, for ten years.  When McMurphy comes back to his bed in the end, it is sad when chief is all ready to escape with him, but he can’t because he is a complete vegetable.  Chief then feels he has to kill McMurphy to put him out of his misery in the ward to set him free like he wanted.  After that, Chief goes over to lift the heavy object thing that McMurphy couldn’t lift and he throws it out the window, cheers, jumps out, and starts heading for the hills.  He escapes and gets away in the end as I realized that he was the one to fly over the Cuckoo’s Nest.