One Flew Over The (West) Cuckoo’s Nest

In 1975 Jack Nicholson starred in a masterpiece of a movie, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, about a criminal who dodges conviction by faking insanity. Unfortunately, he rapidly finds out that the insane institutions of the day were much worse than being in a prison. The psychiatric staff start escalating their treatment of this “problematic” patient un…