The Deer Hunter
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tenritori It's 1967. Best friends Mike Vronsky (Robert De Niro) Steven Pushkov (John Savage) Nick Chebotarevich (Christopher Walken) work at the local mill in an industrial Pennsylvanian town in a Russian-American community. Steven marries his girlfriend Angela pregnant with another man's baby. Mike is in love with Nick's girlfriend Linda (Meryl Streep. Nick asks Linda to marry him. The friends are heading off to the patriotic Vietname war. Mike promises Nick not to leave him there. In Vietnam, the men are captured by the Viet Cong and forced to participate in a Russian Roulette game.
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tenritori The entire beginning of the movie paralleled my own life. Smoke stack town. The town I grew up in was polish but a lot like this Russian Orthodox church and wedding. we even had our wedding reception in a American Legion Hall. The old ladies acting the same. Deer hunting with my friends. And my wife said to me, that bar scene with them singing was just exactly like you and your boys. We probably had about 25 guys go to Vietnam from my area in those years and believe it or not we did not lose one guy. They all came home but some had thier share of problems.
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tenritori This is a great war home-front movie. One cannot beat De Niro and Walken and Streep. The detailed extended Michael Cimino style is effective in giving a lived-in feel to the movie. The Russian Roulette is the most controversial aspect. I think it is the shock that sends this to another level. It encapsulates the desperation and the randomness of war. It is the perfect metaphor for war.