Deer Hunter Review

Rating: 6/10 (18 December 2009)

#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 game of Russian Roulette symbolizes the Vietnam war and how it can be won in the short run, but if you play it long enough you'll suffer it's consequences. Those who survived the war rarely came back unharmed, most were physically or emotionally scarred. The director uses Russian Roulette to show that the Vietnam War left none without torment. Like the game, the war left it's soldiers with three fixed options: death, emotional or physically devastation. Unlike other wars many didn't know why the US went to war. Other soldiers can justify there war experience with there pride for their country, they had something to fight for. The Vietnam veterans had nothing to explain why they did such horrible things, or why they had to endure such horrible conditions. When the soldiers came back they were in some way harmed from the "game."