I walked out of the theater when "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was debuting. That was 40 years ago. I just couldn't believe that so many people were that crazy. Now I realize that there are far more nuts than most will ever realize, and those nuts will always be the wheel that squeaks the loudest.
I've never been able to watch the movie all the way through. Nicholson was one of the trial subjects for LSD when the government was developing it, if I'm not mistaken. At any rate, I've spent a good enough portion of my life around crazy folks that they neither fascinate nor entertain me. Same with movies focusing on insanity. The irony is though, that IIRC, the movie/book was about a sane criminal who got himself purposely committed to avoid prison over murder.
