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The shadow

timeless

Reviewed in Australia on 1 January 2020

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excellent classic movie

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Incredible film but astonishingly sad and depressing.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2020

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Time for a reappraisal of this war drama regarded by many as a classic, and it is another dvd that is still available in multiple editions and is still often watched and reviewed on Amazon.
The edition I'm reviewing is the 2 disc Special Edition. Sadly it clearly states that there are NO English subtitles.
Disc 1 has the film at 2 hours 56 minutes with director Michael Cimino's audio commentary as an extra. Disc 2 has all the bonus features as listed by Amazon.

Superb widescreen presentation, acclaimed cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond ( yeah, me neither ) but be aware that huge segments of the film are set in industrial Pennsylvania and it's not meant to look pretty. Certainly yer man has captured the dourness of that part of the world extremely well. So too the excruciating chaos of the fall of Saigon and in-between the awful prison sequence that set our three protagonists on their road to the irrevocable change to their lives. The contrast of these settings is outstandingly handled by Cimino and his writer of the screenplay, Deric Washburn.

As I saw the film the first hour tries to be jovial and is set around the wedding of one of the three. There is always an edge and it didn't work entirely for me but I admit that I knew what was coming ---- like many others we were expecting a war film and needed to go there. Perhaps reflecting over the overall plot the wedding segment could have been shorter, but for some it probably was the best part of the film.
A good part of the next hour is set in Vietnam ---- the Russian Roulette game may be a total invention and fanciful as some have criticized the film for that content, but let me say that as a young many I met some ex- soldiers who served in Vietnam who claimed that an American could be filmed shooting a Vietnamese on camera......... for a price. I have never read confirmation of that service offered by unscrupulous Vietnamese. Perhaps that too was an invention but I believed the guys who recounted their experiences.

The final part of the film shifts between both countries and is so desolate, leaving this viewer very sad and confirming the powerful performances of De Nero, who has never looked and sounded better in a film, Walken and Savage.

Sad to say again this 2 disc Special Edition with the Studio Canal logo has no English subtitles.

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Ms Jennifer Francesca Hartmann.

The Deerhunter, the horrors of the Vietnam War.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 June 2020

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The film stars Robert de Niro and Chris Walken, and is about a group of friends from Pittsburgh PA, who are totally unaware of the horrors of the war that is going on in Vietnam.
They are sent there when they are conscripted into the US Forces, who are fighting the Vietnam war against the Vietcong in a guerrilla war.
The war really comes home to them when some of them are captured as POWs by the Vietcong, and are forced to play Russian roulette for their captors entertainment.
Two of them manage to escape from their captors, and when the war is over they go back to try and find one of their friends who was left behind, and try to get him to return to the USA.
The film brings to the screen the horrors of the Vietnam War.

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Martin

Outstanding

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 July 2018

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This film has been criticised for being over-long and I can understand that critique. However, for me anyway, the portrayal of the Pittsburg area steel workers Orthodox community was brilliantly done over an extended time; I've watched it a few times ... outstanding ... I'd have to draw a veil over the Russian Roulette sequences in VN, though, so 4*... the steel workers are not there anymore, their government shipped their industry abroad after shipping them abroad to fight a pointless war that it (the govt) started ...

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トリッパ

日本語字幕がありえない

Reviewed in Japan on 7 November 2018

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映画自体は皆さんご存知の通りの名作です。
このブルーレイ商品について書かせていただきます。

私が気になって、まともに映画を鑑賞できなかったのは２点あります。

その１　
日本語訳が普通の会話では使わないような言葉、分かりやすく言えば簡易的な翻訳ソフトで英文を日本語に直訳してるイメージです。
なので映像を見ながら字幕を読むのに時間が掛かり、なおかつ直観では理解できない事が多く、理解するのに多少のタイムラグが発生してしまい映画に集中できない。

その２
連続したセリフの中で、画面上２行一杯に字幕が表示されているのに、ほんの２秒弱で次の字幕に切り替わってしまう。
何度も繰り返し見てセリフを暗記しているならともかく、これでは全くセリフが入って来ないし、感情的にも映画の中に入っていけない。
ましてや、↑その１の事もあるので、翻訳が表示されている時はそれを読むのに一杯いっぱいで、映像をしっかり見る事は出来ない事が多々ある。

パッと見で２行の翻訳が頭に入ってしまう人は関係ないかも知れませんが、この作品のソフトをいくつも買い揃えてる私としては、以前に発売されているＤＶＤの方が断然見やすいですし、きちんと映画として鑑賞できます。
私は最後まで見ませんでした。
誰がこんな仕上がりでＯＫしたんですかね？

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David Brereton

They don't make movies like this anymore

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 February 2020

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Absolutely classic film, particularly for the way in which it spends most of the movie building up its characters (which most movies don't seem to do anymore) with phenomenal acting and a great soundtrack. Despite some tense scenes and emotional depth to the characters and situations it is not the most exciting film to watch and if you are looking for a 'war film' you will be disappointed with the lack of action and inaccuracy.

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Cliff fan

Brilliant film

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 August 2020

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Brilliant film and actors. A long film but the storyline keeps your attention. Different emotions emerge as you watch the film, sadness, bravery, stupidity etc. Robert de Niro, Christopher Walken and Meryl Streep are great in it.

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Aphra Benn

The Deerhunter

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 February 2011

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DVD of this iconic film about the Vietnam war and how it scars the lives of the main protagonists. The acting is superb, particularly Robert de Niro and Meryl Streep. The famous scene of the Russian Roulette forced on the prisoners of war by the VietCong is probably one of the most harrowing in movie history. The detailed study of the lives of the men before they go off to war, getting married, going hunting and working in the Pennsylvania steel works is important in terms that you really do care what happens to these guys once they go to war. A real Hollywood classic.

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Keith Froggatt

A must see film

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 April 2020

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One of my all time favourite films. Many know of the ‘famous’ scenes but it’s a tragic story of what war can do to a small close-knit community and of personal relationships.

Elizabeth McGowan

Good acting and quality writing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 May 2022

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