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Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Milos Forman's

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

It won 5 Oscars.

It has one of the highest ratings on IMDb that I have seen—8.8.

Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher fight it out.

There is a tension throughout. Is this a story? Is this a metaphor? How large should I be taking this?

The answer, I think, is to let it take you where it takes you.

Somewhere in here there is a personal message. Take it. Each of the principals represent a part of our life or our experiences.

Today, I got how imprisoned the people who run the asylum are. How pitiful Nurse Ratched is as a human being.

Another time, another message.

There is a lot in here to laugh and cry about.

At the very basic least we get a message about freedom.

And like all great movies, there is a second Ebert review in which Ebert notices the extremely long take of McMurphy right before it all goes to hell. You can see the thing working out in his face. Great Jack Nicholson.

Also in this film, a young Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd to say nothing of the wonderful Scatman Crothers.

A definite 5 out of Netflix5 and then some.