Analysis of ?One Flew Over the Cuckoo?s Nest? Every sixty minutes, when the clock strikes the hour, the cuckoo bird of a cuckoo clock will come out of its hiding place and herald the time with it?s chirping of ?cuckoo! cuckoo!? In the film, Nurse Ratched and her assistant, like clockwork, call the patients to form a line and receive their medication. Everything has to follow a certain order for Nurse Ratched and …showed first 75 words of 1033 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1033 total…of the film, from the script, to the cinematography, to the acting, was deftly handled and (probably) meticulously planned and executed by Forman. The theme is itself timeless, making the message of the movie appealing to people from all generations. It has parallels to the life of Jesus Christ, killed because he was bucking the old Jewish system, and Matthew Shephard, the teenager killed by his classmates about two years ago because he was gay.