My second fave War movie just behind korean movie "Brotherhood". Deer hunter presents a steller cast De Niro, Walken & Streep. Michael, Nick, and Steven are three buddies from the steel mill town of Clairton, Penn.They are like schoolmates, hanging out in a local bar and enjoying weekends of deer-hunting. Michael and Nick are also both in love with Linda, who seems to juggle both of the men. It displays the harsh reality of war both from point of battle field, but it is more a study of how it effects friendships and families. At just over 3hours long it first hour and half takes place before they even get to war. it documents their everyday lives, working, hanging out and a 45 min scene of one of their weddings. fully painting a picture of their friendship before tearing it apart with brutal scenes of war. This film found its place in film history for the "russian roulette" scenes, which are very hard to watch. they are indeed tragic, tense scenes as you'd expect and amazingly planned out. This film is truely a classic, see it, but be warned, its exremely raw and real dipiction of war. Also probably my fave performance by de niro (yes raging bull / Taxi driver included) and Walken steals the show. a harrowing film, tense, all of this added to by setting up a normal life narrative, tearing it apart by violence.
See it, it's Classic, amazing.
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