answer to #1

Rating: Null/10 (18 December 2007)

Sam Thompson answer to #1 The symbolism behind the Russian roulette sequences in The Deer Hunter is pretty obvious. What the director is getting at is the fact that the Vietnam war put our country at as much risk as putting a loaded gun to your head and hoping it fires a blank. America has never seen such a tragic war. Soldiers usually came home scarred either emotionally or physically, among their problems were post-traumatic stress disorder (shell shock), depression, heroin addiction, missing arms or legs, etc. Soldiers did not know why they were in Vietnam, they had no way of telling who the enemy was, and furthermore they were often captured by the enemy and tortured. The Deer Hunter portrays the Vietnam war as a dangerous, hap hazardous fight that brought forth no winner, just dazed and confused men who once stood for something.