excellent, spiritual movie

Rating: Null/10 (8 June 1999)

Michael Cimino's Deer Hunter offers a disturbing look at the effects war has on a small group of friends. Cimino obviously opposed the Vietnam War, but the movie is much more than an anti-war film. It looks into the lives of average working class people in a northern industrial town and questions the purpose of life, and how each character views the world based on the events in their lives. More specifically, it portrays the breakdown of the human soul and the confusion and sometimes horrors of life.