Very impressive

Rating: 10/10 (11 May 2012)

"The Deer Hunter" is a gut-wrenching story about friendship and war. I caught it accidentally one night on TV, it was late and I didn't even know what movie I was watching. It left me speechless. Only a few actors could match the emotionally devastating performance of Christopher Walken and John Savage in "The Deer Hunter".
I hope the ending is an ironic commentary meant to suggest that even after all this tragedy, these characters still fail to understand that patriotism is just a notion that governments use in order to manipulate masses. To politicians, soldiers will always be nothing more than statistics and a good topic for a speech. The absurdity of war and its inherence couldn't have been better suggested.