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After watching the movie, I couldn't help but feel that the 3-hour movie is indeed too long. I remember that the teacher told us before that any old movie that exceeds 3 hours must be watched. Because this is a kind of classic synonym, and the films that can stay will be full of thoughts and worth our appreciation. Before watching the movie, let's classify this "Deer Hunter" as one of his "old movies", which is indeed the case, the movie is indeed classic enough.
(2) The first 50 minutes of the plot
film is slightly earlier. The film uses a lot of film to describe the life of the rural youth represented by Diderot, which is complicated but full of fun. After busy work, I can go to the bar for a drink with a group of buddies, and occasionally go hunting for deer in the mountains. This may be the ideal life that many people yearn for. For these young people, "war" is just "going back and forth by plane", and they are not shocked by the reality of life and death on the battlefield. The young people before were just like the blossoming flowers growing in the greenhouse. It is enough to pave the way for the changes of the last three people due to the war. Another long description scene in the
hunter or hunted film is the scene of young people hunting deer on the mountain. In fact, you can find a little bit of metaphor in it, 1. The hunter or the hunted. In the United States. Young people gather in the mountains to hunt. At this time, they are hunters with absolute power, and the deer being chased by the hunters have no choice but to escape. When the camera turned to Vietnam, the hunter who had absolute power at the time became a deer that escaped. The only difference between them is that people know how to take a chance and get a chance to survive. More is a silent satire of war.
2. The two deer that were killed are just the author's pure conjecture. Do you remember Michael's precise marksmanship when he hunted deer for the first time? Accurate marksmanship hits with one hit, and his eyes are full of perseverance. In the second result, Stanley hits with one hit. From the details of this hunt, we can see the lack of self-confidence shown by Michael. As a soldier who has been baptized by two years of war, he is full of hesitation and hesitation. In this way, he is not even as good as the one he was 2 years ago. It was enough to torture this man physically and mentally when he was tortured in a prison in Vietnam. What is lost is not only the health of the body, but also the health of one's own mind.
3. For Stanley's practice, the same is hunting. The flamboyant Stanley also tried to fool his friends with a gun, and for the second time he did Russian roulette and shot him, without even thinking about the consequences if the bullet hit him. The stimulation in Vietnam has made a person neurotic enough. Makes people lose control of their senses instantly.
(3) Reflecting on
the destruction of war is not only the human body, but also the human mind. If the soldiers fighting on the battlefield are facing physical ordeals, the family members waiting at home are suffering from a kind of mental torment all the time. Can't get any news from the soldiers on the front line, can do it just at home and pray for God's care.
Many details described by the director in the film are worth noting.
1. When Michael returned from Vietnam, when he was about to get home, he asked the driver to keep moving forward in the taxi to avoid the party that his friends held for him. Try to imagine that a man facing the threat of death from the battlefield returns to his hometown, what he needs is not the cheers of applause, not the congratulations surrounded by beautiful flowers. All they need is the care of their family and friends. They have faced the test of life and death, and all they want is the warmth of a family. But he chose to escape when he was so close to home. Try to guess the complicated heart of Michael at that time: 3 people went back to Vietnam during the Vietnam War (At that time, Michael did not know that Stephen had returned home), facing the physical and mental torture on the battlefield, was he still the same Michael? ! At this time, he has been smeared with a sense of fear by the war.
2. After Michael returned from Vietnam, he met his crush Linda. The feeling from the body and mind has completely changed. The two of them didn't have the feeling of being admired by young people before, and more of them were in a vague state of ambiguity. There is no love at all. What the two need is to get close to each other and find a sense of dependence that has been broken by the war.
Nick's death may be the best ending for him. The war has completely hit him, and he can only live on the edge of death all day for excitement. He couldn't look back, and when Michael returned to Vietnam to find him, the wound on his arm exposed his previous ordeal. Maybe it's not that he doesn't want to go back, he just can't go back. Maybe he didn't fire that shot, and the ending would be Nick McKell's great resistance in the casino. Maybe the ending would change, maybe the two escaped successfully, or maybe the two died together. Nick chose a fatal blow to end his life, in exchange for Michael's body to retreat (the author's own guess). Similarly, Nick's death also pushed the whole film to a small climax, pushing the anti-war meaning to a higher level.
(4) Summary
"The narrator is always the defender." Personally, I think the film is too extreme, too much from the standpoint of the United States to describe the devastation of the war, as if one-way narration of the impact of the war was caused by Vietnam alone.
The army does not need to think independently, and the war only needs to go forward bravely and be loyal!
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