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Several men shoot themselves in the head. Prisoners are tortured and, most famously, forced to play Russian Roulette for the amusement of captors gambling on the outcomes. Women and children are deliberately killed by soldiers. The graphic violence and depiction of psychological trauma are not for kids. The lives of three great friends are ruined when the Pennsylvania steelworkers join the army, see hideous combat in Vietnam, and suffer post-traumatic stress. Parents need to know that The Deer Hunter, director Michael Cimino's 183-minute, 1978 epic, uses extreme violence to underscore the brutality of war and men's best and worst tendencies.
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As he becomes a professional Russian Roulette player, he abandons his previous life - friends and love - to enter a living hell. Nik loses much of his memory and his mental stability and is easily recruited by a devilish war profiteer. In combat a man is set on fire and screams. A Vietcong soldier tosses a grenade into a bunker where women and children are hiding, presumably killing them all. A man loses his legs and the use of an arm. A broken bone is seen sticking out though a man's leg. A jealous boyfriend tears them apart and punches his girlfriend. A man puts his hands on a woman's behind as they slow dance.
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A drunk driver recklessly and deliberately passes a large truck on the right. Wounded and dead soldiers are seen, some with blood on them. Vietcong soldiers bet on this game and beat those who delay pulling the trigger. Some survive and some shoot themselves, with the attendant blood seen. They are forced to play Russian Roulette, where one bullet is placed in a revolver's chamber and terrified victims are forced to put the gun to their heads and pull the trigger. Some prisoners are kept in cages where the water is up to the men's noses and rats are swimming around them. Mike, Nik, and Steve are captured by the Vietcong and imprisoned in cages filled with water up to their legs.
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