Region - Educational Research and Reviews

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was directed by Milos Forman, based on Ken Kersey's 1962 novel. The quality of a film comes from all aspects. Foreign studies on this novel mainly focus on the 1960s and 1970s, respectively focusing on the religious color, realism, symbolism, gender composition, humor color and so on. Domestic experts and researchers also studied the novel from the perspectives of thematic research, counter-culture movement, psychology, feminism and existentialism. However, the study of liberalism is rarely mentioned. This paper discusses the expression of liberalism, and the classification of liberty to find out what is the liberalism and analyze the image of liberalism in this movie.