one flew over the cuckoos nest
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Gareth Elahi What are the messages and meanings of 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's nest'? How does the text use media language to communicate these messages and meanings? The film 'one flew over the cuckoo's nest' shows many different messages in the film which relate to how metal care hostels were run at the time of the film. Milos Forman has used a variety of different camera shots, angles and music to portray these to the audience. At the very begging of the film there is a long, establishing shot of the mountains with non-diagetic music playing. The camera films this moving from left to right this shows the open world and represents freedom. The shot then jumps to one inside the home and the camera moves from right to left to show the contrast of the freedom and vastness of the country side to the home with bars on the windows...

