Deer Hunter jubilee

Rating: 10/10 (17 August 2013)

I want to say few words for this movie which is landmark for the end of Vietnam era. I know that it hurts for the American people to recall over and over again for this social experiment, so to call. I am not an American and if it was 40 years ago I would have never had a chance to write this review. As an Easterner we people from the Soviet bloc showed solidarity to the fight of the Vietnamese people and strangely enough I remember that some alimony and other salvation stuff was gathered from the civil population. I also know but can not support it with figures that the Warsaw Pact had sent some military force to Northern Vietnam; so it was not war America vs. Vietnam, but America vs. Vietnam plus Allies. Those are general truths and I am not withholding some state secret.
Now let's talk about the movie. If it was only for the death of one of the principal actors in the film (John Cazale), that movie wouldn't have been worthy. Unfortunately, the movie received much spit from its critics and intentionally didn't received its full acclaim as first one shot at the war theater - before "Apocalypse Now" and before the Rambo series, etc. Bad luck was also that at Oscar 1979 it had to compete with another equally shattering film ("Midnight Express" - about life in Turkish prisons) which I think that is no less valuable than the Vietnamese saga, with remarkable supportive role from John Hurt. And also "Superman" (1978) was there and how is it possible not to receive a nickel. Thank you!