Question #4 for the Deer hunter

Rating: 9/10 (21 December 2006)

#4. The reason why Mike goes back to Vietnam to find Nickey is because before they left to Vietnam, after Steve's wedding Mike is sitting butt naked on a basketball court and him and Nickey both promise each other that they won't leave each other in Vietnam and that they will come home together. Well, Mike and Nickey meet up at a small village and get captured and they have to play Russian roulette against each other and they both survive but then they get split up again. Mike sees Nickey at a Russian roulette club where people bet on people playing and Nickey doesn't see Mike and a french guy takes Nickey away and basically brain washes him. So, Mike goes back home and he almost starts to fall for Nickeys girl, and when he goes hunting, he can't shoot a deer because that is what him and Nickey used to do, and when he goes to visit Steve, Steve shows him a drawer full of money and Mike knows that money is from Nickey so Mike feels like he has to go back to fulfill that promise. But when he gets back, Nickey is basically brainwashed or too far gone from drugs that he doesn't remember Mike, so Mike plays Russian roulette against Nickey and right before Nickey shoots himself, he remembers the phrase "one shot" because that is what Mike always said how to hunt deer, is with "one shot".