question #4

Rating: 8/10 (7 December 2005)

Mikey went back to get Nickey after evidence confirmed that he was still alive. Stevie had been receiving hundreds of dollars sent to him in socks in the U.S. and was storing them at the hospital. Once he showed Mikey, Mikey immediately realized they were being sent from Nickey because he had seen Nickey right before he returned to America playing Russian Roulette for money. Mikey had been feeling awful for leaving Nickey there in Vietnam in the first place because he promised him that he wouldn't, and after being home for a while without him he was realizing how different everything was having a core member of the friends missing. It was hard for Mikey to be happy with such guilt lying on his shoulders and especially because he could see pain in Lynda's eyes from missing Nickey. Once he found out that Nickey was still alive, it created glimpse of hope for things to return to normal and was an opportunity that he couldn't surpass. He hadn't gone back earlier because chances were high that Nickey would be dead, but he wanted to. Throughout the movie the friendship between these two men was the most powerful and it was sad to see it end the way it did.