Analyzing Evil: Nurse Ratched 

Lmao What a brilliant actress

Unfortunately everyone hated that character so much it made it hard for her to get work after.

Lol

Lol I like that, sounds like she had a good sense of humor. I know Anna Gunn got a lot of hate for Skylar White in BB.... if you’re that hated by audiences then maybe you’re doing your job pretty well 😛

See Flowers in the Attic. She is cruel and heartless in that movie as well. You can hate her some more and make her day,LOL.

I have one of those in my work place. A real villain.

I had one when I was in first grade. I think my mind blocks that year out a lot but she really disliked me because I was a slow learner I think. She would put me down and everything I made she would ignore while praising other kids. I remember struggling in Math class and writing down the numbers on a peice of paper, she sent me to the principal's office for that and rather than help me learn or figure out what was wrong, she kept putting me down more and more as the year went on and saying smartass comments about me infront of the class. Meanwhile she's not exactly like nurse Ratched, she just reminds me of her.

Katana Katz I had a second grade teacher like that

Katana Katz : how horrid, she’s worse than Nurse Ratchet .... as you were a child. Disgusting!! I had a sister who had someone like that, she didn’t ever like school again. It was a necessary evil for her.

Many psychopaths r in position of power they don't always serial killers. Some just enjoy torturing others mentally and emotionally

Very astute. The devil incarnate. What an insanely fantastic performance she gave! There was a commentator who said that in her Oscar speech, she said "thank you all for hating me so much". One classy lady.

I was JUST looking at that. Amazing

@@Luckimee Some say I'm neurodivergent.Yeah, probably. But I notice details and I love that about myself.

Yooooo I never thought about that !!! Your absolutely spot on with that

She looked like Bram Stokers Dracula, before Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Like how Umbridge is more hateable than Voldemort because she's more realistic.

Robbie Cummins at Panasonic in Cardiff.

yep, I had teachers like her. Even my kindergarten teacher was like that. Very wicked and vile

The worst part is a lot of people don’t even see how she is villainous and are confused why people dislike her at all which tracks with real life

And in and of itself some sort of psycho

@DoogieBowser Hey dude I grew up in a manipulative family, my father being the worst. dominate the situation or failing that keep your brother at arms length. You ll pay otherwise. I learnt that the hard way.

reminds me of somebody who was in the white house the last few years

@@pushuppoppies8718 Try everybody who’s ever been in the White House, ever. Congratulations on Joe Biden by the way 😅 No doubt he’ll bring more energy to the White House...

@@pushuppoppies8718 more like 32 years

Sounds like the Government

well they are there to finish off the abuse victims, so they tell no tales and don't warn the normies

It's happens more than you would thing. Most boring ass place you will ever go. Nothing like psychiatric wards in movies

@@stormtrooper2425 I happen to be a civil rights lawyer prosecuting psych hospitals all across the USA for federal felonies.

@@SovereignStatesman cool???

@@SovereignStatesman I’ve seen a lot of your comments. I previously saw the film maybe 10 years ago. Isn’t all of the main character’s problems ultimately his own fault as he plead insanity to get out of jail for his crimes? In that way he thought he could just trick and manipulate everyone, but instead his malingering was punished and crushed by the system?

"And thus I clothe my naked villainy with odd old ends stolen out of holy writ; and seem a saint, when most I play the devil."

@@NGRevenant Hey what's your name?

Yeah, Jean Luc Picard, whose arch-nemesis was a villian who wore a twirly mustache (the one time he got punched out by a hero that said "I'm NOT PICARD!")

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2 Corinthians Chapter 11 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

This villain could be a hero if she had a clearer understanding of her job. It should be to make patients well, but it seems that her personal mission is to keep the peace at all costs. The Drs approve her results without ever setting foot in her ward. The only time we see them is in their offices. Had they been present on the unit and seen her methods, they could have corrected her.

Mrs. Macnamara Still fricking hate her to this day

It was a lot different when I was in the hospital. We were allowed to play cards (spades) and watch t.v. and write whatever we wanted in our journals, and they had an arts & crafts time scheduled for every day so you could maybe bond with another geek over coloringbooks and soduku puzzles or just listen to radio, hoping some grunge or one of the funner pop selections made an appearance, and there were other classes where they taught you relaxing ways to stretch out your body. I mean, there were drawbacks, too, but seriously you couldn't ask for more improvements. Better quality of patients maybe, but then you know that's a fair ways off.

I have met 5 people like her (probably more but 5 comes to mind immediately). 1 was a female school counselor. 1 was a male staff member at a mental hospital. 1 was a female nurse at a different mental hospital. And 1 was a male teacher at a special education school. When I was a kid, that "1 female school counselor" was responsible for putting me on a trajectory in my childhood, a trajectory that caused me to go to a mental hospital for the third time in my childhood for a bullsh*t reason (the first 2 times I went was because of suicide, but I kept my mouth quiet after that). During that 3rd visit, I had met the female nurse like Nurse Ratched and was forced into special education upon getting out. At age 16, I dropped out of school specifically because I wanted control over my own life and because people like Nurse Ratched exist everywhere where there is a therapy-like setting. Since dropping out of high school, I took and passed the GED, graduated college with a math degree, and got a good job.

@@thoryan3057 Good for you. Some people don't need help, they need people to get the hell out of the way.

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Uh oh I think we got one her . Everyone be nice!

@@Cannabis112 LOL

You're not helping. You can't help people with a hard heart.

@@mr.2cents.846 It really does depend on the person's intent. Being hard Be a great barrier or it can be a cruel tool.

I grew up in much the same way as you did. I'm the oldest of my siblings so it was my responsibility to protect them and to take care of them as much as I was capable of doing because I too was only a young child. Literally no one I turned to for help would help us either. My five year old brother sustained a traumatic head injury in 1975 because our father caught him playing with the circuit breaker and as a punishment he bashed his head repeatedly into the circuit breaker until his head was flat and bone fragments were embedded into his brain. He was hospitalized for a year upon which he was released back into our mothers custody. Our dad got away with it because mother claimed Bobbly fell down the stairs. We were always falling down the stairs. Years later we were removed from school and taken into protective custody because of the bleeding through our clothes from a severe beating with a razor strap the night before. They kept my sister in foster care but returned me and my brain damaged brother to mother and her psychotic boyfriend who fancied himself Hitler reincarnated, our house a prison camp, and us kids Jews. When I was a teen I went to the local police station and begged officers to take me somewhere, even lock me up in jail, anything but send me back home. They put me in a childrens shelter, that turned out to be just as abusive as my mothers house. I then went into a fostor home with a barfly for a foster mom. She brought men home to sexually harass me as she watched drunk and high on drugs. So, I went back home to mother. On my 18th birthday I fled mothers house as she wouldn't be receiving anymore Welfare benefits on my behalf and I knew she would make money off of me one way or another. When I was 25 she called me and apologized for everything she had ever done and asked for a chance to be my mother again. I still secretly wanted a mother more than anything else, I wanted a mom. So I told her I forgive you, mom. Then she invited me to spend Christmas with her and asked that I come alone. Weeks later she called and asked if I had checked the mail yet. I told her I hadn't. She told me to go check it then let her know if I'd received a letter from her. After I got back I told her there is something here from you. She said "Okay, then open it and sign your name where I've marked a red X." She said it's a $5,000 funeral expense policy so if I die before her she can give me a decent burial. I told her I'm going to read it before signing it. She said "I just told you what it is you don't have to read it!" I read it then said "Mom, this is a $500,000 accidental death life insurance policy from Mutual of Omaha!" She was pissed to say the least. i told her I'm not signinig it. I"m glad I left on my 18th birthday or I know for certain I wouldn't have made it to my 19th. There isn't any help for children. Even the ones who're supposed to help either sexually exploit, traffic, and abuse the ones they're supposed to protect.

I've lived through it as well. I'm sorry to hear it, and congratulations on getting out and healing.

@@surefirebeast0599 May God continue to guide you and protect you ♥️♥️🙏👏I hope you believe he sees all and you will be redeemed, even better things for you and they will feel God's wrath soon!🌪️✨

Watching Precious gave me chills due to our parallels.

The funniest thing is McMurray is also a narcissist, if not a psychopath

Most of my teachers were like this

I am in an old folks home. We have a nurse just like her. We are all scared of her. But we can never leave this place.

@@gmailaccount1894 oh my heart goes out to you ... I am a nurse and I have worked in old folks homes off and on during the years,, believe me I know exactly what you are talking about. I have had to work with evil people like this .. and I have had to fight for the rights of the residents too .. I think some of the kind of nurses that you are talking about should never have become nurses at all.. cold hearted bitches!!

Child Protective Services are full of Nurse Ratcheds

I know a few nurse Ratchets in care homes usually the older ladies

Not just the system: the mental health system, it's worse than the KKK in the postbellum south. Meanwhile prisoners have far more rights despite being convicted criminals.

That doesn't take any brilliance on her part; it's just the reason she was able to operate like that.

@@ToyotaGuy1971 That's what happens with punitive psychiatry: i.e. you get bully-bureaucrats destroying civil rights under the guise of "treatment;" that's why mental hospitals were closed down, since they had fewer rights than CRIMINALS in PRISONS.

@@SovereignStatesman You don't destroy civil rights, you can _violate_ them, but they're still there, and they can be defended, if you can find an honest lawyer with balls. The real reason they closed down those facilities, is because they wanna spend that money on themselves, (the oligarchy), and if it causes civil unrest, that plays into their hands as well, because it gives them an excuse to violate more rights, under the pretense of protecting the public with draconian, unconstitutional "laws". Those are the actual reasons.

​@Lex Bright Raven So was the shutting down of slave-plantations by Lincoln, by that logic. Mental hospitals are worse than the KKK.

Exposing every weakness of how the kid fit in. Just another brick in the wall.

😮In primary school as well, though the academic pressure is only put on in the secondary school, so you felt you were cramming then from the age of 12 to 18. I had a hunger to learn more academic subjects in primary school, but felt that primary school then was to mainly teach us to conform to rules via physical punishment, and religious worship and instruction, and be a good team player in physical education rather than teach us knowledge and practical skills and how to find further knowledge. If they wanted us to get physically fit, the emphasis should have been more on running and swimming, not ball games. I was ready to learn French and biology at 8 or 9, but I couldn't until I was 11. The pre teens are a good time for that because once you reach 12, puberty gets in the way and tires you. So, I read junior encyclopedias in my spare time instead in my last two years of primary school. I had a children's history book for my birthday once so was able to learn about periods in history not yet covered in school as it went up to the mid 20th century.

In mental health hospitals and industrial charities, they treat junior staff, trainees, and volunteers almost as bad as they treat patients and users. Look how the junior nurse behaves in the support group. She says nothing but watches Nurse Ratched to see how to facilitate a support group. She most likely is a student nurse or newly qualified. She appears to be sympathetic to the patients at first but has to defer to Nurse Ratched to become more like her. Even volunteers have too much work piled onto them, but this more presenteeism than actual work. The idea is to distract you from other things such as volunteering in other areas, creative classes, gardening, housework, and a social life rather than the senior staff telling you not to do these things. They would ask all volunteers to come in on a certain day even if they normally don't volunteer that day to help with a huge mail out. Then, when the volunteers come in, they are told that it isn't ready yet, so they should come in the following day instead. This is deliberate to mess up their week as some had to postpone appointments and social arrangements to come in. When they could have called them on the phone that morning to postpone them coming in. When that happened to me, I told them they wouldn't see me for the rest of the week. We came in to be told there were new additions to the mail out that had to be photocopied. The other volunteers were sent away but I was asked to stay in a small photocopier room that had no external windows in case the paper jammed up or was used up as it was my usual day for volunteering. I developed a headache from the smell of the toner, so I went home. The policy officer wouldn't let me go at first so I told the volunteer manager and she let me go home. They wanted me in the following day, but I told them I had booked a group trip to the seaside, so I wouldn't cancel that. I struggled through that trip with the headache that I still had and vomited by the beach. Then I recovered in time to go straight to a rock concert. I had bought a ticket for weeks earlier but after it began to feel ill again as the headache returned. I felt washed out all the following day, so lay on the settee at home for most of it. The office manager called me at home on the phone to say the mail out was now ready and to come in, but I refused to saying I was tired and feeling ill. They send you a lot of information in the mail if you are a panel member also to wear you down and distract you from reading other things.

This is ongoing, just against people whom no one will trust over the abuser.

The Psych Centers are full of Nurse Ratchets.

davy209 THAT is what scared the shit out of me years ago LOL

The scary part is, there are real people who think like that!

There are thousands of people like her in healthcare, and other institutions waiting for us to be admitted. Look up the Stanford Prison Experiment. These people develop into the evil they become. It is the position of power over the helpless that manifests their wickedness, and desire for control. The power and control over these people fuels their sadism. It could happen to anyone, and anyone could become a victims. It's true horror, and something we will all face sometime in our lives, whether it's at work, or in hospital. We will all be victim to it at some point in life.

@@davy209 A lot of right wing evangelicals are exactly like that.

Yes, a lot of evangelicals are scary!

I'm so sorry you had that experience. Some people will do anything to make themselves feel powerful.

You could have said, I'm just gonna go outside and rub two sticks together...how else do people make fire(and had serious look on your face). Lol that would have fixed that person ☺️.

Everyones voting for chicken or fish right now on a highjacked airplane, but my point is it doesn't matter who is head of state or psychiatric hospital if the people in charge have intentions to devalue you and gain dominance or manipulate the situation for the lust of control. it could be sadistuc control, fear of not having control, humiliation of not being in control, these people are more damaged and abused then the pain they righteously inflict

Bad stuff happens to people in life and most of the stuff you try to forget, but stuff like that is stuff you never forget. It’s incidents in life like that you remember late at night. People can be very cruel.

True. One common denominator we all share though especially for those snobby types, none of us are getting out alive.

She purposely pushed him over the edge by mentioning his mother. Sick evil woman

did she anticipate the suicide? i would thinl tjat that was the one thing that didn't go accprding to plan.

@@GIANTSKY she did she saw his suicide as a great attempt to get control of the Patients again

@@justinbarton8808 she’s terrible and what’s more scary is that there are people like her in the real world in many different hospitals as we speak

She knew he would because she knew exactly how to make him do it.

She hates him for his empathy and power to help others that she her sadistic and vile sociopathic self cannot attain to, despite being paid to help others.

Mac just showed them the facts of life, while the modern world told them lies which conflicted with their experience.

@@donotresussitate She hates men because nobody would marry her, so she uses her job to get revenge on them.

The real problem was the lack of any Drs in her ward. The Drs cannot see what goes on, but simply assume everything is fine because they never have problems in her unit. No news is good news.

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Sounds like the average older white lady

Jay Louis 82 she raised her voice telling Cheswick to sit down. That was it.

She's a Cancer ♋

I found it interesting that she carried this off similarly in ST: Deep Space Nine as Kai Winn, the pathologically ambitious 'Pope' of the Bajoran people. At first, I didn't like her wooden delivery, but the way she could get under your skin with it was, actually, part of her brilliant performance. A false sweetness that was woodenly dogmatic, but thinly veiling a vicious vindictiveness that was often murderous in its presentation. She became one of the best villains in Star Trek, IMHO. She was completely irredeemable and was ultimately consumed by the 'demons' that she was so willing to serve.

She was terrific considering that she came out of a 10 year retirement the year before.

yes, that is my exact thought too. the darkest twist ever. she shouldve died

and that is the weirdest statement i ever gave! 😊

It is because evil, especially evil like hers, always wins .

@@anilin6353 she hasnt. By the native American escaping, she lost.

He's an indien.

@Peter Nielsen you know exactly what people gary is on about.. :-) you just don,t like to equate it to that horrible period.. we will all see soon enough how most people will react, like sheep to the slaughter... even betraying own family because of covid/vaccin will be a thing of the near future..

Abortionists.

It couldn't happen today because it didn't happen yesterday.

Your dad understood the truth about humans

@sv_cheats 1 I had an abortion due to rape and two for medical reasons. Just an FYI, forced pregnancy is considered a human rights violation

What is your ruin?

That’s what you get when you abandon actual religion for more deviant and eccentric options……

@@krypticunlimited6925 What does this even mean. What is an eccentric religion?

Well that's because they are a cult silly. They have to do that or people will realize what nut jobs they are

@@UnholyWrath3277 no way, I thought they were a perfectly reputable organized religion

I've had many pounds of flesh gouged out of me by several in my lifetime. I believe that some of us are magnetic to them. And they seem to have a genius - though they may be dullwitted otherwise, two of mine were - at doing things which will be destructive but which they can get away with, unless they die unrepentant...

My mother had that stare.

@YumYum , many.

Are you OK

@@hoshimaruhajime7933 Yep. Better than ever. How are you?

They are you and me. Any person who doesn't understand that given the right circumstances and right conditions that they can become what others deem a sadistic monster don't understand themselves

@@peaknonsense2041 and are often the most susceptible to evil

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win." - Stephen King

We are the monsters who invented monsters so we don't have to face ourselves

@@magallanesagustin4952 "This inhuman place creates human monsters"

Funny you should say that Greg so have I

... yeah,, they don't burn out because they really don't care...

Yep, the feminist-propaganda makes more and more hypocrites everyday.

@@ToyotaGuy1971 Nobody mentioned feminists yet you still feel the need to bitch and moan about them

@@LucasSantos-ss6ou Don't be a hypocrite saying I'm "bitching and moaning"; I'm merely pointing out an important issue that can't be over-addressed, and it's relevant, here.

@Gigawatt these types of people pre-date modern feminists. Let's not pretend the horrors of the asylum and mentally ill didn't exist only a few decades ago. If we blame this on something completely unrelated then we can never solve the issue. The system needs to be changed but people are more concerned about proving their agenda than solving it, like you. It's pretty disgusting to blame a modern problem on something that didn't even exist a some decades ago, and only proves further that you have an agenda and will bend and twist any topic to suit it, instead of caring to solve the issue. But that's very typical of feminists and antifeminists (like yourself) alike. It's a completely disrespectful to people who have suffered at the hands of a busive authority figures. But you don't care about that, the only thing you care about is proving your agenda even at the expense of others. It's gross.

Do u think maybe, Maybe born bad but there could be a evil demons possess those bad nurse to do evil like demon go into Judas to betray Christ

Ok

Extremely horrific when you encounter a cop or even a judge like that. Both, I had the unfortunate experience of having to deal with.

I definitely did.

Amen, and they get away with their BS, but for me, in the end, I outlived all of'em.......and you have to wonder what it was all for,.......senseless behavior..........

Lesbian boy haters. The Teachers unions just moves them to another school when it gets obvious. Two years usually.

Istj

@@marokanetc literally almost the exact opposite of me haha. infp baby

she is exactly like my stepmother....one time she lost her $hit and started yelling at me HOW DARE YOU DEFYYY ME....!

Most of us have experienced authority figures very much like this in our lives from school teachers, to bosses, politicians, law enforcement, security guards, even politicians. Such professions attracts these kinds of people because they are able to act out their psychosis and bully instincts as long as it's couched in the pretense of order and righteousness.

She is just like many people but to a more hyperbolic level and in a position of power. People like her sadly do get into positions of power or they create the illusion they are and think they are. Truly my least favourite personality and i know people like it

Hi Brittany, your comment made me wonder how old your child is now....and if that experience had been impactful enough to have left it's mark for a number of years. some people are damaged, to different levels, for weeks, months, years and lifetimes by acts of cruelty/meanness/power seeking of others.

There is some justice in this world

oh God I remember that scene so vividly, when I saw it in the movies the first time.. when the scene was over I suddenly realized that I had been sitting really forward in my seat and physically going through the motions of Mac Murphy strangling her.. I hated her so much at that moment!! yes it was a genius moment!!

I’ve seen this in real life, that moment when someone should is genuinely happy you reacted poorly to their subtle consistent abuse.

Really? That's something I'll have to think about. I never thought of that scene that way. I just saw it as a look of abject terror of Ratched's worst nightmare: a patient out of her control and killing her, and well done, too.

I disagree. She paniced, because she faced an unbroken men she was no threat for. She was surprised by his attack, because she did not expect that McMurphy would dare it. Caused by the attack she lost her selfcontrol for a moment. Thus, she was broken , not MacMurphy, who admittedly payed a high price, but he accepted it. Mac Murphy acted like a man.

She lost. Mac gave her a fate worse than death by taking away her voice to command others and she realizes and understands how everyone else views her. As a result, she did become a little more humble in the end, asking someone (forgot his name) how he felt and genuinely meaning it.

God this film is bloody sad at the end I played Undertale bloody GTA 4 Watched Joker 2019 and Avengers infinity war And those I hold my tears This film gave me a tear in the end this is the most luckiest movie find I ever seen

@CaliDorko then you must have no brain

@CaliDorko fuck bro you’re so tough I wish I was like you 😂

@CaliDorko already way past that, maybe you’re just not that tough after all?

@CaliDorko no you act like it though by posting your original comment trying to sound like some kind of hard ass

True that. I was working with one. Sad thing is she is RT and celebrates no holidays 😂 but pts. Have told her she is crazy for trying to control them in group Therapy. 😅 oh well like many have written some hospitals promote ppl like this.

That shouldn't even be allowed.

I 100% agree with both of you. I ended up working multiple 16 hour shifts with no actual bathroom/smoke break and no lunches due to her never coming to relieve me from patient watch (its potential criminal charges of neglect if you just up and leave with no one watching, so i couldn't even leave the room to grab someone to give me a break). She would also get in patients faces and talk down to them or scream and get them all riled up or play tricks on them, evil was this lady and her friends that acted just like her.

@InSanctvs thanks buddy! That was 15 years ago and I'm happily working in Tokyo Japan now, but i will never forget the devil that was Barb Andersen.

Nepotism, whether literal or figurative, runs a great many systems in this world that it shouldn't touch.

I do wonder why the relatives dont comlain,im sure it all shows through...

True this

I'm neither. I don't care and I don't care about controlling others or their politics. The paycheck is all that matters and doing the job right.

I worked in dementia care both in homes and in the community and sadly you are spot on. The problem is care is very underpaid and agencies etc are always desperate for staff so like you said you either get carers/nurses who do it for the love and others shouldn't be allowed anywhere near vulnerable people. So sad.

@@newshades7009 People who hurt animals, the vulnerable and children are the WORST kind of people on this planet.

@@a.m.308 that's a worrying statement. Perhaps you're in the wrong job?

You triggered a memory of me meeting the most attractive young woman that had just become a psychiatric nurse. She did weird me out a bit when we talked about how dangerous her new job would be, she said in an almost satisfied way she knew she would get beat up. We danced all night and she invited me and my friends back to her place. I was confident I'd found a beautiful new girlfriend. As we were leaving however, the bouncer asked my buddy Little Chief (Shane) to get out, that he wasn't welcome in their bar. I stood up to the bouncer and called him a bigot, told him to get back inside as he had no business outside the doors. He was just itching to attack me but the owner told him to drop it and go back in. When all of us got to her apartment, one of her girlfriends met me at the door and told me that everyone was welcome but me. I was not allowed in. I never did see her again. I could never figure out why she didn't respect me defending my friend.

There is nothing I hate more than a bully, and there is nothing I love more than seeing a bully suffer.

That's nice. But the thing is, when they have sufficient power and authority over you, your lack of concern becomes irrelevant. When someone can lock you in a cage or even have you lobotomized, not taking them seriously isn't a victory. In fact it's a very risky mistake.

@@OlympicLeprechaun Hazing is beneficial for the whole species. Getting the weak to become strong, or quit, means the group is stronger overall.

@@brandondavis7777 following your logic to its natural conclusion, why don’t you just make your own concentration camps?

@@brandondavis7777 weirdo

Hey quick note her name is “Ratched”. I thought it was Ratchet too until I read the book

Great comment, very astute observation. The book was great, too.

thats also what happens when youre a kid under the care of a person like this. its why most people dont speak up about abuse until its waaaay too late to get justice

That’s how psychopaths manage to rule our world. They climb their way up to the top by manipulating and stepping on other people to get there.

My Father is an English professor who has taught One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, both the book and the movie, multiple times. A few years ago he got me to watch the movie with him since I had only heard about it from hearing him talk about his classes. Afterwards, he mentioned a consistent phenomenon which he had noticed in his students reviews of the book and movie. Primarily, he mentioned how many of his students desperately sought to sympathize with Nurse Ratched, seeing her sadistic and sociopathic tendencies as being either nonexistent or for some greater good because "a person in a position of authority obviously couldn't be evil". Its kind of scary that the same thought process you were describing in yourself as a child also exists in the minds of college-age adults.

I think some people just don't want to accept that authority figures can be evil which is understandable because we are supposed to trust them, look up to them and sometimes rely on them.

That was purposeful, as I recall a video essay pointing out to me.

@@ferrisbueller9991 That wouldn't surprise me, as directors/writers are always using symbology as metaphor.

Satans daughter. She knew who she was so she had to represent her daddy.

Yeah those god awful victory buns Not to diss anyone who was around in the 1940s and wore them but I always thought of it as a strange and cringe hairstyle

i thought they were cat ears

yes agree some many duds

Kathy Bates earned hers 100% too

everyone earned their oscars back then

Julian Velasquez exactly 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@@tinseltownchick same for Grammy. Grammy is a joke nowadays.

yes, it is a brilliant. Never seen anything else like it. Ledgers Joker is nothing in comparison, and that sais a lot, eespecially since that. is brilliant too.

I've always loved her acting here I don't think any other actress could have played this part so well

​@@whutdafeq1715Kathy Bates could have I think. But maybe I am saying this because Louise Fletcher and Kathy Bates are the only 2 people that scare the hell out of me in the history of film. The men don't scare me but they do !

How many teachers aren't like this?

@@wmhhealth2018 Almost all of them, I'd say. EDIT: Y'all seem to be misunderstanding my position pretty badly here. Nurses and teachers are unsung fucking heroes.

@@wmhhealth2018 Me

@@OpinionatedAussie Is that why you identify as “John Doe”?

@@jotham777 is what why I identify as John Doe?

Didn't read it but that actually checks out

That's awful. Imagine how horribly she must treat them if she's not even ashamed to just go around randomly saying that as if it's normal. 😟

Sounds like she was a theatre nurse.

This is quite common now as we see many of these sick communist doctors and nurses have openly killed many people on the ventilation systems during the "pandemic". Heros? my ass!

that's indeed scary but they exist. i can't count the number of Nurse Ratcheds i've worked with over the years. yes everyone is over-worked these days but that's not an excuse to be a professional terrorist.

Those kind of people shouldn’t be nurses or doctors, that’s horrible

Sad thing being she did such a good job that she got typecast and it limited her career for quite a while...

@@bhatkat That was the role of a lifetime. I never understand how one actor can be typecast but other ones aren't. Like Nicholson wasn't type cast because of this role although it seemed a lot of his parts were always rebels of some sort.

I've met nurses like this. It's scary.

When I went to elementary school in early 90's I had a grade teacher that sounds just too familiar. She had somekind of antipathy towards boys so she tormented them all the time, by belitling, mocking and bringing them down. She used to also give detention to boys of the class for absolutely arbitary reasons, and I have had to sit in a lot of detentions because of something a girl in my class did. She'd only say that she knew it was me since girls wouldn't do anything bad. It got so bad that me and a couple of others changed schools. Towards end of the tenure I was in that elementary I would sit 2-5 hours a week in detention, for arbitary reasons. I did some small kid shit that deserved it, but yeah lol, nothing in this magnitude. This isn't just my perception either. A lot of the grades kids parents were talking about it, even parents of the girls. Apparently 7-8 yo girls got so worried about her behavior they told on her. I've lost touch with most of my classmates from that time. I know that one of the boys became a truck driver, one is mentally so miserable now he can't keep a job, 4 I know became addicts, and 1 went to prison. A alarmingly high rate in one small class of 17-20 kids in a country where drugs and crime is low. I have to think that only thing that connects us is that teacher who tormented them when they were in their most vulnerable part of growing up.

Sad but true😣

@@Pyllymysli that’s the victim mindset right there. You’re all mentally fkd because your 7th grade teacher was a bitch? Unless there’s more trauma that she caused that you’re not getting into, y’all should’ve been able to fully recover by now...

@@MrCaptainTea bad bait 0/10; didn't even get a reply from the target😂😂

I know exactly what you mean by your last words. Confronted by questions why I had problems with a certain person in my souroundings, impossible to put my finger on anything specifically wrong with her. That is their "Art" to fool everyone else. As a child it is impossible to get away from this toxic environment. I often wonder about some of our politicians, which kind of Ratched they met in their lifes.

That was back when the Oscars were actually about honoring good actors & actress's & not pushing & pandering to political agenda's & celebrities talking down to the everyday people that made them famous in the first place.

I thought the book was better, but the book had a different ending too. Besides the fact that Mac was lobotomised and the Chief euthanased him, the important part of the ending that the movie misses is that all the patients actually left. If I remember correctly, there were only about three or four of the main characters left on the ward when McMurphy is brought back and put in the display room. None of the patients leave in the movie.

I don't know how someone can enjoy that shit. Smh

Not "can't afford to." "Won't."

i read the book, but years ago. it fits, at least had they brought him into the ward during the day…of course Chief would’ve waited until the evening. i know that it was an indie movie-but you make an excellent point. (they could’ve even had her turn OFF the music for MacMurphy’s entrance).

@@mcfrisko834 Well, instead of "enjoy", better wording might be "find interesting" or "apprecuate the poignancy of."

Quit. It's not worth it. Try to line something else up first of course. I have a lot of responsibilities, kids, etc. But i decided to not pretend for these psychos anymore. If you gotta lie to yourself for a few bucks, you're debasing and devaluing yourself anyway. Fuck that paycheck, keep your soul, brother.

@@playbackproductions1 Oh I left a couple months and couple breakdowns after that bs. I'm at a much better paying job now.

@@waynes.wilson6616 congratulations man, glad you’re in a better situation now!

Sounds like Amazon

@@JAWdropone it was a pizza place actually😂

NHS is a mess a anyway and you definitely sound like one of those entitled and needy patients, exactly like a child. The NHS literally cannot provide safe and adequate staffing for its hospitals yet the organisation and public acts surprised with the poor quality of care that takes place and still maintains their high expectations. You don't have to be a genius to do the maths on that one. The whole country is in denial and nothing is being done about it... Only solution is to end the NHS that is the trainwreck it is and privatise it. Only then you will get the quality of care that you demand for, as long as you can afford it lol.

I remember when my mother was sent to the emergency room. I got called about it and rushed over. I go into the emergency wing and go up to the desk to ask where my mother is and what does the nurse say right off of the bat? She interrupted me and tells me to stand behind the line. Mind you in a very cruel cold voice. I’m thinking my mom is in the ER and you’re giving me shit about not standing behind the line? Fuck you. So while it’s not in the same vein as Nurse Ratched, this nurse sure was despicable.

I bet!

Sadly I believe this true. I have witnessed outright derelict of nursing duties while a hospital patient, not of me but others.

Don’t forget the psych ward nurses too! I’ve read some true horror stories. Makes me want to be double secure in an attempt so I don’t survive and end up there !

Look up the Stanford Prison Experiment. That should tell you exactly what unlimited power does to people.

It warms my heart to see that someone else also sees the problem with policing is unchecked power + no accountability. Every time I hear people say "tHeY nEeD mOrE tRaInInG" my eyes roll into the back of my skull. If you talk to any based law enforcement either Current or retired, they will say the same thing. Police brutality has nothing to do with lack of funding nor lack of training. It is unchecked power & no accountability. END QUALIFIED IMMUNITY TODAY & WE WILL SEE A DIFFERENCE IMMEDIATELY

​@@HarbingerOfBattleThanks,, I will 👍...

Ordinary men

She posed for pictures in the set in her bra and panties to show the cast she is not like Nurse Ratched.

Murmurations Imagine no politics in a world literally run by it...🤦‍♂️

But that's what we need; actors (and screenwriters, for that matter) who understand that sometimes characters should be entirely loathsome. We live in a time where every villain is watered down and given a sob story (I.e. Maleficent). I've had enough of that. Horrible ppl who do horrible things exist in the real world and there's no reason to detract from this fact.

But that is why they are called "actresses."

Blerk Snarfgut Well you completely missed the point of maleficent if you think that. That movie didn’t say that there aren’t truly evil people. It said that the truly evil person of the fairy tale was the selfish and deceiving king. Not maleficent. It’s a tale about prejudice and how humans will easily believe the worst about someone different from them due to their appearance. While maleficent did curse aurora, her compassion and love towards aurora transformed maleficent into the true hero of the movie. The movie reinforced the idea that sleeping beauty’s tale was always told with maleficent as the clear antagonist, despite the clear villain being the king. Also there are plenty of films with clearly evil antagonists. I really don’t know what you’re talking about💀

Well electro shock therapy isn't considered health care anymore anyway. Unless you are talking about a time anywhere before the 90's

Sounds a lot like what people in many countries are going through with these types of "leaders".

yet, that line holds true on so many levels.

I prefer his next comment she's some kind of c*nt!

lawful evils

Umbridge is the first character I thought of as well that compares to Ratchet. Evil hiding behind her position and her smile.

Oh yeah! Umbridge, Ratched, Margaret White and even Olivia Foxworth (Flowers In The Attic) are all characters we can agree to hate

Anytime someone mentions Harry Potter, their opinions are laughable at best.

Yes, a malignant narcissist/sociopath. I've been mauled by several during my life, and they left wounds which affect me frequently.

You've just described most nurses I have encountered. Polite and civil but and without emotion. They are not paid to show emotion...they are paid to perform the mechanics of their job. I remember my one experience in the emergency room and I was horrified at how cold but polite the nurses were. Their eyes were empty of all feeling.

The hair / it’s true / like devil horns

@@jackanthony976 Good nurses and caregivers are diamonds in the rough. Their job is so hard and they have to put up with the evil nurses, so that makes it even harder.

Not control: ENSLAVEMENT. Society enslaved people, and Ratched was Simon La Gree.

Chilly Willy not “health care”. Illness care, very expensive generally with poor outcomes

The healthcare system is Nurse Ratched. No sympathy, no empathy only follows its rules that it created

The Catholic church has even more characters like her👀

@Eamon jAMES could you blame them? If your media manipulated in Twisted facts with bullshit, people wouldn't be upset at one another

i know, i'm at the mercy of one right now. she gives me my hormone shot the "correct" way (there's more than one) where i CAN'T ABSORB IT.

They don’t think they’re evil, they think they are the hero...Welcome to the Trump administration

@@tyslims2805 wat

She wasn't evil, if there was evil, it was the hospital beaurocracy

No, I don't think she thought she was helping them. I think she knew exactly what she was doing and she didn't care. They were vulnerable people, easy to bully and manipulate.

​@@Chasstful Indeed, she was just doing her job, the job the hospital administration wanted her to do, and doing it well. She wasn't trying to be of service to the patients, she was trying to be of service to the people who signed her paycheck. Keeping people in captivity supposedly "for their own benefit" and giving them "medical treaments in their bests interests," without getting their consent, and in many cases with they saying they would prefer to refuse the treatments,, that is at the heart of the matter - it is the idea that you can "treat" adults without their consent, and the PRETENSE that imprisonment, shock treatment, and pre-frontal lobotomy, damaging brain surgery, are "medical" treatments. If you think this is hospital is part of the past - you are not entirely correct. People are STILL getting shock treatments despite vociferously refusing consent. They are still getting locked up and held in captivity with the pretense that it is helping them, when we all know it is being done to punish them. And this is done to them on the say-so, usually, of just two physicians, both of whom usually give the patient a very cursory examination, if any examination at all. It is punishement for a "crime" of being annoyingly different, and being less powerful than their relatives who claim they are acting "mentally ill," without the benefit of a trial by their peers, and their punishment is not for a prescribed amount of time, but instead, "until they get better." With better being simply the opinion of a psychiatrist re what is better. Nurse ratchet is just the stand-in for this system. The real problem is too much power in the hands of medical doctors and government employees. The face of this power that the patients see. But I see the MD's and the government officials. She is doing what she does to please the people who write her paycheck. That is why the hospital administrator says she is one of their best nurxes.