The Deer Hunter

Rating: 8/10 (6 August 2005)

The Deer Hunter, is about several friends who live in a small community and work at a steel mill. The friends include Mike, Nick, Stan and Steve. The friends celebrate Steve's wedding and a couple days later they go off on a hunting trip before they are supposed to go fight in the Vietnam war. The friends head off to the war and when they return home they all come home changed and different men then they were before the war. Winner of The Oscar for Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Christopher Walken, who plays Nick), Best Director (Michael Cimino), Best Film Editing, Best Picture and Best Sound at The Academy Awards, The Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film at The American Cinema Editors Awards, The Marquee Award for Best Director and Best Supporting Actress (Meryl Streep, who plays Linda, Nick's old girlfriend who Mike becomes good friends with) at The American Movie Awards, The Award Of The Japanese Academy for Best Foreign Language Film at The Awards Of The Japanese Academy, The BAFTA Film Award for Best Cinematography and Best Editing at The BAFTA Awards, The Blue Ribbon Award for Best Foreign Language Film at The Blue Ribbon Awards, The DGA Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Motion Pictures at The Directors Guild Of America, The Golden Globe Award for Best Director at The Golden Globe Awards, The Hochi Film Award for Best Foreign Language Film at The Hochi Film Awards, The Reader's Choice Award for Best Foreign Language Film Director at The Kinema Junpo Awards, The LAFCA Award for Best Director at The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, The NSFC Award for Best Supporting Actress at The National Society Of Film Critics Awards and The NYFCC Award for Best Film and Best Supporting Actor at The New York Film Critics Circle Awards. The Deer Hunter, has good direction, a good script, good performances by everyone involved, good original music, good cinematography and good film editing. The Deer Hunter, is a very well made film and is a compelling film and a good character study. The film is about the Vietnam war but at the same time it is as much about war as it is about the effect the war has on these man and that they may never be the same. The film is powerful and entertaining as well as a thought provoking movie. The film is a very good film and one of the best movies about the Vietnam war or about the lives of the survivors of the war. I'am also surprised that the film's director Michael Cimino, hasn't done that much or is that well known after his great direction of this film.