The madness. The horror. The irony.

Rating: 10/10 (2 February 2009)

The hunting trip scene caught my eye because those mountains were not from Pennsylvania, and neither was the deer. But enough nit-picking.
The tag lines from The Bridge on the River Kwai and Apocalypse Now come to mind here. "Madness, madness." "The horror, the horror."
In the Deer Hunter it's the irony, the irony because director Michael Cimino's story places American sons of Russian immigrants in a war where they are playing Russian roulette with their North Vietnamese captors who were being supported by...the Russians!
Search the world film library and you will not find a scene as intense as the Russian roulette scene in the bamboo guard tower above the river on the edge of the jungle. Do not call your education in the history of film complete until you have experienced this movie.