"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is about how forcing someone into a mental hospital just because they don't fit into society is evil and dehumanizing. There'

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is about how forcing someone into a mental hospital just because they don't fit into society is evil and dehumanizing. There's lots of movies and shows that take place in prisons, but th prison itself is usually just the setting. The film is rarely making a statement about incarceration itself. Also, we have a much more fragmented high volume media culture, so it's not clear that film and TV can effect cultural change like they used to be able to.