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Amputee Minor 
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TITLE |
Deer
Hunter, The (1978) |
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DISABILITY |
Amputee
Mental |
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Classic film
centred around the Vietnam War which is an |
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acute
observation of steelworkers living in a Pennsylvanian |
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Russian
Orthodox community going to war and returning. |
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This film
has the breadth of 'War and Peace' except its |
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subjects are
working class Americans. In the first part we |
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see Meryl
Streep stamping prices on the goods in the small |
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supermarket
where she works. Then follows the |
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marvellously
filmed Orthodox wedding and the celebrations. |
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Later the
men drink in a tawdry bar and leave for the clear |
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majesty of
the mountains. |
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The second
part shows the diabolical cruelties of the the war. |
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The final
part looks at how the war has affected the men. |
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One of the
friends has lost both legs and fallen into despair. |
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Another has
stayed in Vietnam playing a game of Russian |
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roulette
which he was forced to while a prisoner. Now he |
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does it for
money and because his mind has been disturbed |
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by the time
he spent as a prisoner. |
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