The Deer Hunter

Rating: Null/10 (10 December 2014)

#4.In the beginning of the film on one of their friends wedding day, Mike made a promise to Nick. Nick had a girl, great friends, and a seemingly all around good life. He got to drink with his buddies and go on their big hunting trip year after year. On the day of the wedding Mike made a promise to Nick that no matter what happened over there in Vietnam, to be sure that Nick would return home. Well, in Vietnam, Mike and Nick were separated and Mike returned home without Nick. At the end of the movie when he does go back to Vietnam to bring him home, I do not think it was necessarily because he had made that promise to his friend and that he was sincere in keeping it. However, I think that it had more to do with the fact that he got with Nick's girl and he felt a huge sense of guilt because not only did he leave his dearest friend behind in the brutality of Vietnam, but in doing so he returned home to have sex with his "girlfriend." I think it was to make himself, Mike, feel better about what he did, and if he went back to Vietnam and try to save him, it would release him of his shame for what he did.