One of my favorites. And I will actually die on the hill that says that Nurse Ratched isn’t the villain and McMurphy isn’t the hero. Both simply represent the two sides of Billy Bibbit’s freudian super-ego. Two authority figures representing order and chaos respectively.

Neither chaos nor order are evil in a traditional sense of the word. Both just have roles to play that are completely hostile to one another and both are contributing to Billy’s sense of his own self and his struggles in that regard.