Answer to Cravens Question 3

Rating: 7/10 (31 May 2009)

#3 The french guy that brings Nick to the roulette den symbolizes how the french brought the US into Vietnam at the start of the war. The French needed the United States to help regain control over Vietnam, but the french didn't really stay in the war and it became the United States' war.
The French guy brings Nick to the den and then leaves him there, similar to the way the french brought the United States into the war and then left them. Nick then has to find Mike, but Mike has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and doesn't even respond to Nick. Mike ends up playing Nick in Russian Roulett. Nick dies during the game, so Mike does not reach his goal of bringing Nick back, similar to how the US lost the Vietnam war