My Opion of "The Deer Hunter"

Rating: 3/10 (14 December 2010)

"The Deer Hunter" was a very informative film about the Vietnam War. During the beginning of the movie, one could never tell that the movie would end so tragically. It started with four friends, Michael, Steven, Nick and Stan. The four friends worked together at the factory and enjoyed their simple lives by partying and hunting together. Mike, Steven and Nick end up in Vietnam and undergo many challenges such as playing Russian Roulett at the POW camp and trying to escape. This part of the film was very graphic and I didn't like it. I don't understand why such an enormous part of the film was about playing Russian Roulett considering that there wasn't any evidence that this game was played for sport or combat in Vietnam. I wish that there was more historically accurate occurrances in the film. I was also surprised when Mike wanted to leave Steven at the POW camp trapped in the underwater cage because I thought that Mike would want to save his friend. I'm glad that Mike and Nick got away but things didn't end up well for Nick because he became MIA and got into really bad things in Saigon. Nick was my favorite character and it made me very sad to find out that he was taking opium and couldn't remember Mike. The worst part of the film was when Nick loses Russian Roulett to Mike and Mike has to watch his best friend die. Everything was so different after the men came home from the war. Mike was sufferring from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder while Steven was missing a majority of his limbs and sanity. It is a shame that Nick had to lose his life to sport in the war rather than making it with his friends or fighting for his country.