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July 06, 2002
The Deer Hunter
Scary and poignant De Niro and friends are hunting buddies, who go for weekends in the woods shooting deer. He, and two others, get drafted to go and fight in Vietnam. Captured and tortured, and forced to play Russian roulette with each other, they eventually kill their guards and escape. One loses his legs in a fall and is sent home, De Niro also goes home, but doesn't fit in with his friends much any more, and discovers that he can't shoot defenceless deer. He discovers that his other buddy Christopher Walken has stayed in Vietnam and is sending money home. He realises that this money must come from the illegal Russian roulette contests that he witnessed back in Vietnam, and goes back there to try and rescue Walken. He finds Walken, whose mind is so lost through the experiences he had under torture, and through drugs, that he doesn't even recognise him. In an attempt to force Walken to remember him, de Niro enters into the Russian roulette contest with him; bad move; Walken kills himself with the gun. There is a love sub-plot with Meryl Streep, but I didn't find it very interesting. Nice guitar music. Very famous obviously. AE 0.5Posted by se71 at July 6, 2002 11:07 AM
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