Letter to the Editor
Culture Club Revisits Mental-Asylum Movie

At 8 p.m. on June 14, the Culture Club Gallery in Hong Kong will screen another masterpiece movie. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest won five major Academy Awards. This 1975 American drama film, directed by Milos Forman, came from a 1962 novel by Ken Kesey.

In 1963 in Oregon, Randle Patrick McMurphy (played by Jack Nicholson), a recidivist criminal serving a short sentence on a prison farm for statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl, is transferred to a mental institution for evaluation. He hopes to avoid hard labor and serve his time in a more relaxed environment. Although anti-authoritarian with a history of violence, McMurphy shows no overt signs of mental illness.

Culture Club Gallery
Central, Hong Kong

(June 12, 2011)




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