Personalities

Rating: 7/10 (7 January 2014)

This movie was barely about Vietnam and more about the relationships and personalities of the main characters and how the war damages them. Before the war, Michael seems very well- gathered and self reliant but after the war he is a bit more disoriented because of all that happened to him, yet he still remains pretty close to what he was like at the beginning. Stan was not self reliant and always needed the help of his friends, so things were hard for him during the war when he didn't have anyone to help him. Steve was weak to begin with which was shown when he married a girl who was pregnant with a child other than his own. Him losing his legs during the war did however seem to make him a bit more self-reliant, however he was a broken man. Nick was chipper before the war, but after the war, he no longer felt like he fit in with society and ended up playing Russian roulette until he lost. This is how the characters changed in the Deer Hunter.