The symbolism for the Russian Roulette sequences

Rating: 6/10 (15 May 2008)

There are no times during the Vietnam war when they ever played Russian Roulette. But there I think that there is some symbolism behind it all. I think that the director was trying to say that if you were to go to Vietnam you were gamboling with your life because you would come home being traumatized, dead, or injured. So it was basically like if you went into Vietnam for long enough you would loose like Russian Roulette. I guess it worked in the film only because I was told that it was symbolism. But the first time I watched the film I thought that it was true events and that they really did play Russian Roulette. I wish that they did keep it truthful and didn't show that. Im not one to like symbolism in movies. I like to watch movies that have no in depth meaning behind them.