Question #1

Rating: 3/10 (21 December 2005)

I think that the Russian Roulet sequence shows how everyday that they spend in Vietnam is taking a chance at their lives, ever chamber in the gun represents a day and the chamber that has the bullet is the day they die. I totally agree with this because the Vietnam war was not the typical war, it was south vs. north, all the people looked the same we could not easily identify our enemy. These enemies were not the typical enemy, no more than Russian Roulette is the typical thing that prisoners of war play with their captures. When Nick and Micheal play Russian roulet in the end I think that one of the reasons that Nick dies is because he has spent the most days in Vietnam, he has gone through the most empty gun chambers. Micheal lives because in symbolism he has had as many days or empty chambers as Nick.