The film on which this review is based is the award winning ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’. This picture was directed by Milos Forman and whose main actors include Jack Nicholson as a nonchalant con man named Randle Patrick Mc Murphy and and Louise Fletcher as the sociopathic Nurse Ratched. After a lengthy criminal past, Randle chooses to plead insanity in order to avoid time in prison and is sent to a ward for the mentally unstable. Meanwhile Nurse Ratched rules her ward with an iron fist and seems to show very little empathy throughout the film, exuding bitterness and a lack of genuine interest for the wellbeing of the patients in her ward. Much of this film is based around the issues of a naïve but refreshing right to freedom versus a narcissist’s desires for social order, control and how when the wrong person attains power it can negatively affect the lives of everyone surrounding them. From the beginning, there is a clear struggle between two opposing forces, Nurse Ratched’s totalitarianism versus Randle’s need to make the inside of the institute reflect his former life on …show more content…
Smart is of the opinion that “People who do not accept the minimisation of net pain to be hardened and immoral”. It can be said that Randle inflicts a degree of pain or more aptly distress on his fellow patients by forcing them to step over the excessive sense of precaution instilled in the group by Nurse Ratched, for the greater good. J.C.C Smart’s opinion seems to have a more compassionate tone to it, in stark contrast to Immanuel Kant’s standpoint on Deontology, which would align more heavily with that of Nurse Ratchet’s character. Kant would argue that duty should take precedence over personal desires and that the morality of an action should be based on the action’s adherence to a rule or set of