The directors meaning in the Russian roulette game

Rating: Null/10 (15 December 2013)

for cravens 3rd block film studies class
*this review may contain spoilers*
The option i chose to review was the symbolism of the Russian roulette game and the directors meaning behind it. I believe the director put this game into this movie to show how pointless and destructive the war was. Russian roulette is a game with a meaning less plot. for men to sit around and wait to blow their own brains up for no actual reason is completely incomprehendable. I believe that he put it in to show how badly the war messed with the minds of everyone as well. No one in their right mind would just pass around a gun with a bullet in it and hope that when they pulled that trigger it wouldn't be them who was scattered all over the floor. The war itself was a pointless fight to contain communism and stop a fight in a country that wasn't our own. It messed up the minds of hundreds of men (like any war) and was just all around cruel. With such a messed up mind people like Nick found no problem in betting their own lives in a game of chance.