Connor's Deer Hunter assignment

Rating: 8/10 (14 January 2009)

Mike went back to go get Nick because they were buddies from the beginning and he wanted to be buddies until the very end. When Nick got all caught up in the roulette and all of the drugs he was taking, it made Mike really want him back to save him and hope that they could live forever together. When they played that final game of roulette, half way through it, it seemed like Nick was starting to come through, but then the gun shot and poof, he was dead. So somewhere in Nick, something wanted to come out and go home, but it was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Throughout the film, it seemed like it was fore-shadowing the Death of Nick. It would leave you hanging at the end of some scenes towards the end of the movie. When it showed that everyone came back and Nick didn't, right then we knew something bad had happened, whether it be death or not, but something is not wanting him to come back. Mike was a good friend to the end, he tried hard to get Nick to come back, just like they promised each other at the beginning. During the movie, it left you with the impression that Nick needed someone to go along with, he wasn't as much of a leader as Mike was, so that there could be an outlier. Mike was the leader of the group, and as the leader, he couldn't leave any men behind. He had to step up to take control to get Nick back. So if he did get Nick back, everything would be all goodie good, but their had to be some type of dramatical twist in the movie, something to leave you thinking "dang, that sucks".