“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
by richibi
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” doesn’t
need much introduction, it is the ultimate movie
in the popular imagination about asylum inmates,
people in psychological distress, everyone here
got Oscars, including the picture, except for the
one who deserved it most, Brad Dourif, who
gives a performance of equal stature, I think,
to Elizabeth Hartman‘s in “A Patch of Blue“,
transcendental, wrenching, and unforgettable
of all the entries in this especially fraught field,
the field of mental ill health – see to compare
for instance the highly honoured, eminently
commendable, but nevertheless imperfect
Ciff Robertson – Brad Dourif‘s remains to
my mind unparalleled, in my opinion still
untouched, still the most sublimely,
stirringly, incandescent
what do you think
Richard
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