Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken star in perhaps one of their more critically acclaimed roles in The Deer Hunter. It's a well done movie, but maybe it just seems there were a lot of other movies hitting the theater like this during that decade or I just wasn't in the mood for it, but I struggled to find my way into being interested in the story, or even caring about the characters though they had a lot riding against them. The movie though is a depiction that is true to the realities of the Vietnam war, and looks at how the lives of men who had been sent there were affected by the tragedies they saw.
Summary: Michael, Stan, Steven, and Nick are growing up, and as the arrival of marriage and a child on the way is awaiting one of the guys a war is also brewing that is going to send them all over seas to fight it. The men's time in Vietnam is horrific as they live as captives and witness innocent lives taken. Returning home will be hard for some as trying to live a normal life afterward after seeing the horrors of another world.
