Russian Roulette

Rating: 8/10 (23 December 2008)

The whole idea of Russian roulette in the Deer Hunter, is to show the audience that the Vietnam War was a "life destroyer" if you went to war or if u dogged it. If you play Russian Roulette you either shoot yourself or if you don't play, the Vietnam soldiers with eventually kill you by torturing you. The game symbolizes the sanity of the men forced to play or in actuality to go to war.The scene also helps capture the fright and the violence the Vietnam War had without showing an actual war scene. The film makers did not want to show the whole "war film," thats been done before so by showing just a little clip of the American soldiers in a game of Russian roulette, symbolizes the everything about the Vietnam War. You either went to war, or escaped to Canada and would not be able to ever go back to normal life.