The Deer Hunter

Rating: Null/10 (21 December 2006)

#4
Mike goes back to get Nicky because he feels like that is the right thing to do. Before Mike and Nicky left for Vietnam Mike promised that he wouldn't leave Vitenam with out Nicky. Nicky said that he loved where he lived even though it sounded crazy because they lived right next to an industrial mill in a trailer, and because earlier that day he asked Linda to marry him so he wanted to come back to her. Mike promised that he wouldn't leave with out him. While in Vietnam Mike, Nicky and Stephen all made it out of a POW camp but were separated shortly after that. Mike ends up going home, with out Nicky. But you knew that Mike felt guilty because he didn't go to his homecoming party, he was too ashamed that Nicky wasn't with him. Linda says to Mike that she was hoping he had Nicky with him and when Mike said no he could tell how disappointed she was. After he visits Stephen at the Veterans hospital he finds out that Nicky is sending money from Saigon. Mike now knows that he has to go back and get Nicky because he knows that he is alive. When Mike flies back to Vietnam he is reunited with Nicky but Nicky is so disoriented that he is talking non-sense and shoots himself in a game of Russian Roulette right in from of MIke. Mike needed to go back to Vietnam to know for himself if Nicky was still alive. He couldn't just stay in Pennsylvania waiting and waiting for a letter or any signs of Nicky. Mike felt like he was obligated and didn't want to let anyone down. And he promised his best friend that he wouldn't leave him over there and he didn't want to break a promise to his best friend.