Michael Cimino's Best Picture winner is at its best when depicting small-town American life.
The Big Picture Forty-five years after its release, The Deer Hunter has stood as a modern American classic and an essential text in the canon of Vietnam War films. The film defined director Michael Cimino as a true auteur, it further cemented Robert De Niro's legacy as the perennial actor of his generation, and it announced Meryl Streep and Christopher Walken as powerful and graceful performers.
While the film is structured around the friendship of the three, Cimino expands upon the weight of this tight-knit bond by making them inseparable from their community. From the methods that capture the quaintness of small-town America to its authenticity, Clairton operates as a character. Despite its likeness to a portrait by Norman Rockwell, the daunting scope of the town looms over Michael, Steven, and Nick, who collectively represent blissful lives as blue-collar grunts.
Michael Cimino Loses Focus of the Narrative During the Vietnam Section of 'The Deer Hunter' The narrative and profound dissection of America's impact from the Vietnam War quickly stumbles and loses focus, ironically, when The Deer Hunter enters Vietnam. The war sequence, which tracks Michael, Steven, and Nick being captured by Vietnamese soldiers and the subsequent forced game of Russian roulette, is undeniably thrilling.
How 'The Deer Hunter' Compares to Other Vietnam Films Compared to future Vietnam-set films, such as Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, The Deer Hunter's engagement with how and why America got involved in the war is lacking. Worse, it gradually walks into a rationalization that the war was apparently justified. For as much melancholic pathos is embedded in the film relating to the lingering anxiety of war, Cimino takes a more passive approach when Michael returns to Clairton.
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