The portrait of a sadistic and cruel war...

Rating: 9/10 (19 July 1999)

Young friends and workers from Pensilvania are chosen to go to the Vietnam's War, and return destroyed by the brutality they had to face there. A dramatic and sensitive film, that alternates moments of happiness and poetry with extremely violent and shocking sequences, as the combat scenes and in prominence the cruel and almost unbearable torture that Christopher Walken's character suffers in his enemies' hands. Directed with accurately and realism by Michael Cimino, "The Deer Hunter" is a faithful portrait of the sequels that a war leaves marked in the soldiers, and, more than that, this movies denounces the disdain that sometimes the society has for them . In the excellent cast, the actor Cristopher Walken gives the best performance of his career. The film took five Oscar:Best Film, Best Director, Best Sound,Best Edition and Best Supporting Actor for Walken.