The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter is a Vietnam war film directed by Michael Cimino released in 1978. It tracks the lives of lifelong friends in a small town before and after three of them go to Vietnam. The main male characters that go to Vietnam are Michael, Nick, and Steven. The beginning of the film shows the kind of friendship they have with one another before becoming a soldier using up about an hour of screentime. The middle of the film shows what they went through during the war, the last part of the film was

Michael Cimino’s film The Deer Hunter would receive mix reviews as well, even though it won best picture in 1978. Vincent Canby’s review in the New York Times, would say The Deer Hunter was both deeply troubling and troublesome (for the manner in which Mr.Cimino manipulates the narrative), but its feeling for the time place, and blue-collar people are genuine, and its vison is that of an original new filmmaker. In critic, John M. Wilson’s review in the Los Angeles Times, he notes that during a screening

powerful and the principle on which the film's symbolism is based, may not have ever actually occurred in these camps, or at least so rarely that it could hardly be portrayed as the general nature of games that the POWs were forced to play. The Deer Hunter does not focus much on the actual war in the field of battle. The director simply did not spend much of the movie in Vietnam. However, I thought the

One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War is The Deer Hunters an old movie which the audience can notice at the beginning. The two principal events are the wedding and the deer hunt, this movie opens with an Italian celebration wedding, which is very unusual for today’s wedding. They have distinct cultures and it is very emotive. The wedding reception celebrates both marriage and enlistment. The reception takes place in a Veteran's Hall, enlistment overwhelms the wedding in ultimate

mean”. It was a strange question and an odd response. Of course it hurts if you are shot, but I think he was trying to convince both his friends and himself that he wasn’t mentally affected by the war. Film critic Roger Ebert commented “The Deer Hunter is far from flawless,

In looking at the The Deer Hunter as a model for the effects of war on people, we have to consider the type of community they come from. This isn’t the the same community that Ron Kovic -and I’m using BOFJ because it poses questions of how war affects people as a prominent theme- came from and therefore the experience is not the same. Similar, yes, in the sense that there is loss in both experiences, but the depth of the suffering is very different. The nature of their surroundings very much affected

prominent topic, and films such as The Deer Hunter, directed by Michael Cimino, became major hits. Even years later, the Vietnam War remained a significant focus for many Americans, sparking a Vietnam war veteran, Tim O’Brien, to write his war story novel, The Things They Carried. In his book, O’Brien thoroughly describes the guidelines of a true war story, with a main point being that, “A true war story is never moral” (O’Brien 76). In his film The Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino asserts Tim O’Brien’s

Green Berets came to the defense of the film. One lieutenant colonel commented that “when Hollywood’s doing it, you have to expect dramatization-some exaggeration. But I thought it was a real fine film.” Another officer enthusiastically said, “I think it caught the essence,” And according to a Green Beret sergeant major, the film, “was just God, Mother, and Flag. Now who the hell could have any opposition to that? It was a good, low-key, accurate picture…The accuracy was there and the photography

In the movie “The Deer Hunter” a psychological disorder is depicted in the film. This disorder is depicted on the main character of the film. In this film one see clearly what the disorder is and the symptoms that depict that it is indeed a disorder. Following what caused the character to get the disorder. What followed after, once he had the disorder? How it affected the character of the movie and those around him. What changed in his life and if he received any type of treatment because of the

Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter was problematic because it took place in three very different environments and it was not always clear as to how they were related. Nonetheless, Cimino won several Academy Awards because of his film’s structure. Dividing the film into the three sections he was able to tie different environments and depict the bloody Vietnam War and Americas’ involvement. His film was very controversial but ultimately paid off. As film imitates life, participation is usually involuntary