![]() ![]() Nick’s significance is directly tied to Michael (Robert DeNiro), the film’s putative American hero. However, against the film’s constant enemy - not the Vietnamese, but rather mankind’s propensity for arbitrarily violent excesses - Nick’s gentle, naturalist spirit embodies Cimino’s idealized vision of America. Set in Clairton, Pennsylvania, the film’s hour-long first transpires in unnatural surroundings corroded by alcoholism, crude drunken exchanges, domestic assault, excessive machismo, and jingoism. In The Deer Hunter, Russian-American Nickonar Chevatorevich - played with distinct effeminacy and introspection by a young Christopher Walken - is a tree of life in an otherwise ashen factory town.
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