To start, I loved the way the story was framed. With the story, I felt that Michael Cimino did an excellent job of capturing the essence of the town and the people in it all while preparing the audience, briefly, for what was going to take place in the near future. The writers, director Cimino and the actors did a fabulous job of presenting the audience with both the good and the bad that took place among friends in this small, Pennsylvania, town. Continuing with the idea of framing the war, we see the issues that take place after the war as well, helping the film to run full circle in terms of the town and its members. We were easily able to see the hardships that took place during the wedding, in the backseat of a car and on the side of the road. In these everyday scenarios, the people that helped to put this film together were able to tell the audience everything that they needed to know about the characters in the film and the story that would continue for more than three hours. The majority of the actors in this film were incredibly convincing. The only character that I struggled to appreciate was John Savage’s Steven, and this was due to Savage’s acting. I felt that Savage’s acting was way too over the top in almost every scene. I understand that the situations that Steven was put in would have been incredibly difficult to cope with, both during and after the war, however, I felt that his entire demeanor was a bit excessive--he was loud and animated, more so than he needed to be. Something that interested me was the fact that many of the sounds in the film were quite loud, significantly louder than the dialogue. I believe that Cimino chose to do this for a couple of reasons. The first reason would have been to show the importance of not just the characters, but of the things that were taking place around them. Similar to the loud audio, the complete opposite was true when the group went hunting. While tracking a deer, the characters were incredibly quiet and almost completely inaudible, showing the importance of the hunt as well. The second reason was to keep the audience focused on the film. While I do not believe that this was the initial intention of Cimino, I can’t help but to think that he would have understood that three hours is long time to sit and remain focused on anything. I thought, regardless of whether or not either of these were the director’s intentions, that they worked in his favor in this regard. The thing that I struggled with throughout the film was the timeline; it was hard to decipher exactly how much time passed between events. Events that appeared to be close to one another were not, and vice versa. Possibly the most interesting thing regarding the film is its title. It took me some time to fully understand the relevance of the title The Deer Hunter. It wasn’t until Robert De Niro’s Michael missed that breathtaking buck in the second half of the film. That one scene was enough to solidify in the minds of the viewers what exactly the characters in the film were going through after the war. Considering how long the film was, I don’t believe that there was any particular point in which I felt bored or uninterested; this is a testament to the remarkable job of the the entire cast and crew of this film. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077416/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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