Moved me to tears for the first time

Rating: 10/10 (25 June 2005)

This is the finest war film ever made. Rather, it is one of the finest dramas ever made that happens to involve war. Movies nowadays are more artistic than human. This was not so in the late seventies when people wanted to be brought closer to understanding people rather than be taken away on an adventure to what they never thought possible (of course 'Star Wars' changed that but that's for another story). 'The Deer Hunter' is one of the last of its kind along with 'The Godfather' where the audience is absorbed as one of the characters and winds up consoling in the end, moved by either tragedy, optimism, helplessness, love, desperation, or remorse, but I felt all of them in 'The Deer Hunter'.