The Deer Hunter

Deer hunter is a Michael Cimino movie starring Robert De Niro (Michael), Christopher Walken (Nick) and Meryl Steep (Linda). This movie isn't attention grabbing when a person firsts reads about it, reason being it’s YET another Vietnam movie. People go to the war and return to the normal world and aren't just the same--post war depression. It wasn't until I watched De Niro in Taxi Driver, that I felt compelled to watch what many people regard his best movie ever.

This is a story of four friends in a small mining town in the States. Michael and Nick are best friends and they along with there friends go for hunting, drink beer and keep living a life minus responsibilities. The beautiful Linda is stuck between choosing one of the two men and keeps juggling them. There patriotism gets the better of them and they decide to fight in Vietnam. In Vietnam, they are forced to look at wicked world of war where a person's life is worth nothing. It is in Vietnam that the famous Russian roulette sequence happens where Michael is made to play against Nick. This particular scene is so beautifully enacted, that it makes a person watching feel like he is the one playing the game. Michael does return to the States after the war, but is a completely changed man. His perspective on life is forever changed and he becomes a better person. But Nick is so emotionally destroyed, that he stays back in Saigon to live a completely self destructive life. The rest of the story is about how Michael goes about trying to find and bring Nick back, ending in an edge-of-the-seat climax.

The movie is almost perfect in many ways-AMAZING acting, beautiful camera work, superb direction and mind blowing screenplay. The only problem with the movie is that it’s extremely long (3hrs 45 mins). If u are a fan of De Niro or war movies or even otherwise this is a must watch. The main reason as to why this movie is so amazingly superb , is that it helps capturing the human emotions so beautifully that after the movie you would feel that YOU yourself are a victim of the horrors unleashed by war.

EYE CATCHER:
Robert de Niro 's acting during the Russian roulette.

WATCH OUT FOR:
DON'T lose your patience when you watch the movie .Its worth each and every second.

IMDB: 8.2 ON 10.