Question #2

Rating: 2/10 (2 June 2011)

When the movie opens the town is celebrating a wedding and sending off party for the 3 male leads. Steve is getting married literally just before he leaves for Vietnam. His friends Mike and Nick are going with him to 'Nam, but all have very different personality types. Nick the guy who always has a smile on and a laugh just behind is rearin' to go. While Steve a newlywed is a little more reserved, Mike the most solemn and serious of the bunch has this philosophy: "One shot is what it's all about. You gotta kill a deer with one shot." Which he seems to take to heart when he is forced to shoot at the Vietnamese and Vietcong alike. But near the end of the war, all have been severely damaged whether mentally or physically. Steve is in a veterans hospital in a wheel chair, Mike has PTSD, and Nick is in Vietnam forced into playing Russian Roulette until his killed. Mike goes searching for Nick only to find him a broken man, and unresponsive to Mikes plea's to come home. Mike challenges Nick to a final Roulette, Mike gets lucky and gets a blank, Nicks luck runs out and he shoots himself in front of the onlookers and Mike. When Mike returns with Nicks body the final scene is in the bar where they were together last for Steves wedding. And all in the bar stop for a moment and stare at one another, all wondering if it was really worth losing pieces of their souls to something the government said was a mistake?