The Deer Hunter

This film followed a group of friends enlisting, going, and returning from Vietnam. This is definitively a character drama about these best friends who go through agonizing changes. Christopher Walkings character was brilliant. I feel like I could relate to him more than Robert De Niro's character. De Niro's character was a definite leader, the introduction scene to him in Nam was brilliant. The scene is that of what appears to be a platoon having just been attacked. De Niro's character is scorched and beaten when a Viet Con comes through killing mothers and babies, this sight forces De Niro to scream and grow extremely angry. Walking's character is more weak I would say, mainly because of the way he had to be coached by De Niro through their game of Russian Roulette. The deep physiological change that Walking goes through eventually drives him to the ultimate madness. Turning a cold shoulder to his old friends and embracing the game of roulette and the underground world that encompasses it.