Should you watch The Deer Hunter?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
The Deer Hunter
Film · 1978
Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.
The sides of The Deer Hunter
- Three Pennsylvania steelworkers sent to Vietnam
- A long wedding before the war
- A game of Russian roulette
The Deer Hunter is good for you if…
- you like a story of friends from a steel town, before and after the war.
- you like a long wedding that lets you live with them first.
- you can take a war that breaks people and never gives them back.
The Deer Hunter is bad for you if…
- three hours is too much for you in one evening.
- you can't watch Russian roulette and the trauma it leaves.
About: friendship · trauma · war · loss
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