Juxtapositions of Beauty and Destruction in Michael Cimino’s ‘The Deer Hunter’
Unlike war films to follow, there's no post-war celebration to be had in The Deer Hunter.
Argun Ulgen
Argun Ulgen is a public interest attorney, and a freelance essayist covering film and culture. In addition to contributing to PopMatters, Argun has also been published at The Rumpus and Salon magazine. Argun resides in New York City and he can be contacted on Twitter @BrookylnCycles, or on his Facebook page Film4Freedom.
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The Phenom is at once remarkable for both its transfixing cinematography and Johnny Simmons's tightly coiled performance, but it's mired by its over reliance on exposition.
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Obsessing over gross small town stereotypes, facile symbolism, and mawkish philosophical exposition, this is an uneven mess, and misses opportunities.