Deer Hunter

It’s been a long time since I watched a movie with more than three hours of patience, especially when the plot developed so slowly; however, I was able to calm down and take it to the end of the last line of subtitles. Naturally, "Deer Hunter" also has Its attraction is not only because the film won 5 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director in 1978.
The whole story of the film can be described as unremarkable. It describes the story of three steel workers including Robert De Niro who participated in the Vietnam War, was captured, escaped, and returned home. Although it is a classic of war films, there is hardly too much extravagance in war scenes, and the entire plot depicting wars together does not account for one-sixth of the film's time. However, it reflects the war’s distortion of human nature, the destruction of life, and the film’s strong reflective theme, which deeply moved me, especially the film uses a game played by Vietnamese soldiers, "Russian Roulette" as a whole. One of the details of the film cruelly reveals that war is more spiritually torturing than physical damage. Therefore, although I have seen many anti-war works before, I am only shocked by the lengthy "Deer Hunter". If you want to ask me what I feel the most at this time, it is an eternal wish: peace under heaven!
The so-called "Russian roulette" means that the Vietnamese soldiers put only one bullet in the revolver and then order De Niro to shoot them on their heads in turn. The cruelty is unimaginable if they are not seen with their own eyes. Even worse, is the most thought-provoking film that one of the three was later attracted to the game, stay in Vietnam to make a living, just as with drug addiction, no
method to extricate themselves, and ultimately devoid of humanity, In this life-based gamble, I lost all of my own.
At the end, I even felt that the director gave such a heavy weight to a gambling game. Is it telling us that war is actually a game? A gambling? A ridiculous game, a gamble that will eventually be lost. In the war, it seems that there will never be a winner!
What is rare is that such a cruel movie has a soothing and beautiful theme music that makes me intoxicated in front of the black screen after the film is over. Come to think of it, this should also be an effect the director pursues, contrast, strong contrast. (Highly recommend this song!)

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