The shocking analysis of a loss.

Rating: 10/10 (8 February 2000)

Cimino doesn't picture the war directly, yet "The Deer Hunter" is the most profound film about war of all times. Maybe it's just because the war is so untellable in its atrocity that Cimino prefers to underline apparently external aspects of the Vietnam tragedy. Anyway no war-movie has been more poignant and shocking than this one and not only thanks to the performances of Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken but above all for the magniloquent and passionate direction of Michael Cimino, who concentrate the narration on the sense of inevitability of loss and does it through unforgettable sequences (the wedding, the Russian roulette), which render the movie extraordinarily exciting. To be brief, one of the best and most important movie of ever.