I think more then a lobotomy was performed

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ktowny — 11 years ago(April 03, 2014 09:33 PM)

"the filmmakers took some artistic license to make it obvious to the audience that McMurphy was brain-damaged following surgery."
This ^^^
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ArclightXXX — 11 years ago(May 13, 2014 09:29 AM)

I think more then a lobotomy was performed
I don't think you know the difference between THEN and THAN.

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beancrisp — 11 years ago(June 11, 2014 06:27 PM)

I don't think you know what a typo is.

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ck1-5 — 10 years ago(December 29, 2015 01:56 PM)

It's perfectly believable that McMurphy could have ended up in the state he was in after his "operation". More than one lobotomy, be it due to a mistake or intention, was taken too far.

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MrDKillian — 9 years ago(October 02, 2016 05:18 PM)

Not a good representation of a transorbital labotomy. He would've been swollen and have had bruises for weeks.

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SnoozeAlarm — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 08:17 AM)

I think the OP raises an excellent point.
I did some research on lobotomies, and from what I gathered, a lobotomy resulting in a vegetative state, as in McMurphy's case, was extremely rare.
But the book/movie is even more unrealistic than that, in that the book/movie imply that McMurphy's state was a deliberate punitive measure.
From the research that I did, conducting a lobotomy for the express purpose of producing a vegetative state of mind was never ever done.
In this sense, the book/movie is extremely untrue to life.
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marialucia1985 — 9 years ago(November 20, 2016 02:01 PM)

How would that scenario explain the scars though?

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ida96 — 9 years ago(December 03, 2016 05:52 PM)

If McMurphy were in a 'vegetative state' (think Sunny von Bulow), we would not have been sent back to the ward, but would have been in a hospital bed.
I think McMurphy was probably still recovering from whatever surgery had been performed (those scars had healed) and he was probably sedated as well. 'The Chief' knew that McMurphy would never be the same man and was therefore, for all intents and purposes, dead.