War changes people. That is what everyone who has ever experienced war first hand will tell you. You come out different that who you were when you went in. The Deer Hunter is a movie that takes you on this journey or change. The story is about two brothers and their friends who experience the Vietnam War first hand. They go in young men with the idea of that war is a game and come back learning that they didn't know as much as they thought.
While this movie gives, what many people have said, a very realistic look at what was going on during the Vietnam War this movie did create controversy. One of the themes that plays through this movie is Russian Roulette. This very dangerous game was controversial in the movie not because of the game itself but because that is was used a "technique" by the Vietnamese in the movie. However, according to many historians there has never been any recorded instances of them using Russian Roulette at all. Regardless of the controversy Universal took home Best Picture that year beating out: United Artists' Coming Home; Paramount's Heaven Can Wait; Columbia's Midnight Express; and 20th Century Fox's An Unmarried Woman. The Deer Hunter also got the honor of being selected for preservation by the National Film Registry in 1996.
Ok, this movie has been way better than the last three. I enjoyed it but I didn't love it. What I did love was seeing all of these actors that I have grown up with in some of their very first roles. Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, and Robert Di Nero among some of them. I love to seeing the famous people in these roles and knowing what they have done since then. I may not have liked the movie totally over all but I did love the acting.
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