The Deer Hunter Questions

Rating: 8/10 (15 May 2007)

1) The director used the Roulete sequences as a metaphor. When Mike, Nicky, and Steve played the director showed how each were unraveling due to the war. I agreed with the director's use of the roulette scenes, because they showed how each of the three men reacted to the intensity of the game, and inadvertently the war. 2) Steve is by far the most unstable, which we see even when the men are at home. When he tells Mike that he hasn't slept with his fiancé' you know something is off about him. Nicky is also somewhat unstable, due to the fact that he is always willing to bet. Mike is the most stable, which is his strongest characteristic. He has a concrete way of doing things, and cannot complete a task unless it is done step by step. And, because of Mike's strong and stable will he gets through the war affected, but not to the degree of Nicky or Steve. 3) The French character is suppose to represent the image American's had on the war in Vietnam. The French where thought to have lured America into Vietnam and then left when we needed them. 4) Mike goes back to Vietnam, because he told Nicky before they left that he wouldn't leave him. Also, because of Mike's personality he would have had to bring Nicky back home because he was obligated to.