film studies prompt: #4

Rating: Null/10 (9 May 2010)

#4 Before Mike and Nick leave for Vietnam, Nick makes Mike promise that he won't "leave him over there". When Mike returns home without Nick, nothing seems to feel right. Mike is a lot more tense than usual, even with his best friends. When they are in the woods and his friends are messing around with a handgun, Mike loses it and even threatens the gun on his friend. Even though he loves Linda, his relationship with her feels unfulfilling. Although he is finally home, he knows that he has to go back and bring Nick home and keep his promise in order to feel at peace again. None of his friends have heard anything from Nick except for Steven (who is in a veterans' hospital), who receives large sums of money in the mail; Mike knows that it's Nick that has been sending the money, and that he has been playing Russian roulette to win it. Mike knows where he has to go to find Nick because he saw him at a certain "venue" where this gambling is done. Mike knows that he must do everything in his power to bring Nick home.