Crave #1

Rating: Null/10 (13 December 2010)

#1. The symbolism for the Russian Roulette sequences. What was the director trying to get at? Do you agree or disagree with his concept? Include with this our discussion as related to patriotism.
The symbolism of the Russian Roulette sequences was the fate of the young working class men who went to Vietnam. If he went, he would never know if he would come back dead, injured, or with psychological damage. If the man did not go to Vietnam, society would think he was being anti-patriotic. Yet if he did go and come back from Vietnam, many of the young people called him a baby-killer and hated him for being in a war of which they didn't approve. Any way the man chose, he would lose, as what actually happened in the roulette sequences in the movie. In the first scene, the Americans would either shoot themselves, or they would be put in a water pit to die a slower way. In the scenes at the end of the movie when Nick and Mike play Russian Roulette a final time, one of them either dies or loses a best friend. There were no winning solutions in the Vietnam war.