Luc Besson: Films That Inspire Me as a Human Being3 of 11
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I was sixteen when I saw One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest. At that age you start to wonder what type of world adults are leaving for you. Here you see this film where the crazy ones are not so crazy and the ones who are supposed to oversee the crazy people are much crazier, and you get a clear sense of what's good and what’s evil. The supposedly good people are so mean and the crazy people are so good and it shook me at my foundation, as though everything my parents told me for the first sixteen years of life were upended.
I was sixteen when I saw One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest. At that age you start to wonder what type of world adults are leaving for you. Here you see this film where the crazy ones are not so crazy and the ones who are supposed to oversee the crazy people are much crazier, and you get a clear sense of what's good and what’s evil. The supposedly good people are so mean and the crazy people are so good and it shook me at my foundation, as though everything my parents told me for the first sixteen years of life were upended.
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