so was McMurphy actually crazy?

The Nurse is the one who is `crazy. She doesn't even do her job of helping any of the patients in the movie who I don't think are that crazy. The first group scene in the movie where she puts Harding on the spot to talk about his wife pretty well shows she doesn't want to help people. And it's obvious when she does nothing to keep everyone from arguing with each other. She just lets them argue and fight without any consequences for them doing so.

She also berates Billy for being attracted to women which is also dumb and I have to say Billy's mother is also dumb for not wanting Billy to have a normal life. When McMurphy suggests that they watch the World series she could've granted the request by putting the TV in another room where the patients who are interested can watch. But instead goes on about how the other patients would've been inconvenienced by it despite the fact they are all too far gone to really care about anything.

Heck in the book this is based on Chief who is the narrator of the book says that she doesn't help anyone and her main goal is to basically make every person that comes to the ward into a vegetable. She is a no good stinking evil jerk and so is anyone in history who was like her. She truly is a villain who only cared about herself and not about any of her patients.

Green Goblin is great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1L4ZuaVvaw

It depends what you mean by crazy. He's definitely a sociopath who has a high excitement threshold (aka he had to do outrageous things just to be aroused).

The man definitely knew right from wrong and he knew what he was doing every step of the way.

No crazier than the average a*shole out walkin' around on the streets...

I mean surely one can agree that in civilized society you can't go around strangling nurses and soforth.

Well, since we are in the closing days of the IMDB-board, why not try to contribute? :P

After a recent viewing with my girlfriend, I concluded that I think McMyrphy was a nutter actually, and I think he had a moment of realization as well:

I have always wondered why they didn't leave the last night, when the party ended.
The window was open, the car was there, just gather the girls and go, or go alone.

In the scene where McMyrphy sits in the chair, drunk and half asleep, you can see that he seems to be reflecting about this situation, and his new found friends and seem to think for himself yeah.....maybe he is a little crazy, maybe he belongs here after all?

it's not so bad after all, this institution, he belongs and can be himself (pretty crazy) with no consequences.

Then he falls asleep and the ending of the film draws near.

At least that's my conclusion, why else would he just fall asleep like that without a care in the world?

Can someone explain why he didn't leave? Did he have the same issue as the chief, nor daring to leave after all?

He wasn't crazy, he was acting on pure rage for what Ratched did to Billy.

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