Is that how it was ? . . . must have missed it when I was there.

Rating: 4/10 (18 January 2003)

A ten-year-long war. I was in Jr. High when it started and ended up over there after going to college for 1 1/2 years.
Split into four zones, the weather was different in each one, the enemy acted differently in each one, and our responses were different in each one. And that's all at one definite time, let alone over a ten year period.

The Deer Hunter was not my war, nor that of any of my Veteran friends. It tripped fewer of my triggers than any movie I have watched on the subject so far. I cannot, and do not, relate to it. Of course that is not to say anything about the quality of the acting and filming of the movie, just the content.
If you want to see something that says more about the subject than any other that I know of see, "Dear Mom: Letters Home from Vietnam." The Deer Hunter is simply a "script-writer" version of what the writer imagined the war was like. I was very disappointed with it.