No one is "average"

Rating: Null/10 (26 December 2005)

"The Deer Hunter" (1978): Although "only" three hours in length, The Deer Hunter feels like thirty. This is a brilliant, high stress film that takes you through the daily lives of a group of adult friends in the urban decay of a dying, blue collar industrial revolution, as they kill time in massive, insignificant ways - only to be further decimated in the jungles of Viet Nam, and their own psyches afterwards. This is a very patient film. It's goal isn't to look at war, but to give insight into these few people, who are not unlike others we all knowpeople who are not special to anyone but one another, do their best with what they know, and try to deal with a highly complex world. All the acting is powerful, the camera work and music tracks barely excessive for my taste, but the script, detailing, roles, and story are awesome. Each character is given the depth and attention to become someone significant to you. This entire work is significant. It is a huge, complex look at, and inside, a few "average" people. Everyone is average until we begin to understand themand then there's no such creature.