The Deer Hunter

“Deer” is very much imperfect; between its gargantuan runtime, a historical inaccuracy forming much of the drama of the film, and that the main cast are visibly ten years older than the characters they are portraying, something about this experience is going to get under your skin. When “Hunter” is cooking, though, it is as a primal scream of frustration, a generation lost to war and politics and something else in the air, and while this film is explicitly a response to one specific moment in time, these emotions feel as resonant today as they (likely) did fifty years ago.

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