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Rating: 7/10 (15 December 2010)

The symbolism for the Russian Roulette sequences were to show that the Vietnam War was a "lose-lose" situation. It was commenting on how no matter what if you went or were picked, you were going to get screwed in the end. Like how if you came home from Vietnam you would most likely have some disability, either mental or physical. Or, you would come back and the general public you were trying to protect would spit on you and call you a baby killer. So it shows that if you play Russian Roulette long enough nothing good would come out of it.
This is also related to patriotism because of what would happen if you were drafted. If you went, all that bad stuff would happen to you, but if you stayed you would be deemed a non-American, couldn't go to college, parents and relatives would hate you, and you might have go to jail.