... the war is that the three friends" single fates are simultaneously representative of all American soldiers in Vietnam, because the veteran is an issue that Hollywood to this day seems keen to dodge, and it takes movies like Taxi Driver (to which the war is background information, we are told in passing that Travis Bickle is a veteran) to tackle the idea of ... survive the war and return home, with nothing more than "the usual complications". Irrespective of this though, The Deer Hunter still remains a hopelessly inaccurate, and ultimately dangerous misinterpretation of the Vietnam war. ...

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... in the present day. As well as providing the historical events, the book attempts to put the Vietnam War in its place in history. Evidence and Arguments Presented While the authors offer a history based on American involvement in Vietnam they also include background details on all the other parties involved in the war. This background information is given to make the reader aware of the ... environment in which the Vietnam war occurred. Without, this information, it would be difficult to understand the war. The Vietnamese perspective ... of all these cultures and circumstances combinin...

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... is what hurts, it is what refuses desire and sets inexorable limits to individual as well as collective praxis..."3 In an era we have so easily conceived of as "post-Vietnam," Jameson's general pronouncement about "history" seems especially appropriate. There are many, no matter what their political persuasion, who say "we lost the war," a consensus recognition of frustrated national desire ... . The films about US intervention in Vietnam are structured around this confrontation between "desire" and "history." The difficulty, however, is that, as James William Gibson notes, "Unlike previ...

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