1975 The film Flying Over the Madhouse was a well-deserved winner in the film industry that year. The film won five awards: best film, best actor, best actress, best director and best adapted script. In addition to being favored by professional film critics, movies have also gained public reputation. Today, they are all considered as rare masterpieces, shining in the long river of time.

The main reason why people highly praise Flying over the Madhouse is that the film conveys a rebellious spirit of pursuing freedom, which is manifested in unwillingness to succumb to the system, courage to fight, courage to get rid of the shackles of thought, and help people around you wake up. As the soul of the film, Mike Murphy, played by actor Jack Nicholson, contributed to the plot and height of the whole film. He showed the cynical, witty and intelligent false mental patients incisively and vividly. This character will be smug because he fooled the system, and will be excited because he helped the real mental patients get out of the cage.