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Rating: Null/10 (21 December 2008)

The Russian Roulette sequence symbolizes the role of the soldier in Vietnam. The director is trying to say that if the American young adult chooses to go to Vietnam, he has a extremely high chance of dying, and if he doesn't die, when he returns home he is criticized for being a "baby killer". If he chooses not to go to Vietnam and skip the draft, he is shunned and ostracized by his family and friends. The situation is a double edged sword, like Russian Roulette(either way your messed up after, if the gun goes off your dead but if it doesn't your psychologically damaged for the remainder of your life). I complete agree with this concept because this kind of treatment actually happened to many people during the era of Vietnam. By the end of the war patriotism is a hypocrite, at the beginning of the war your non-patriotic for not going to war, and when you get back is you do go, your criticized for going. The moral of the story is, the Vietnam war was a completely screwed up time for the young adults of the American society.