If you loved The Deer Hunter, try Born on the Fourth of July
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theyboth carry the gut punch mood tag, and they sit in Drama / War territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Deer Hunter, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Born on the Fourth of July is
Virginia suburbs, summer, fireworks exploding. A young Marine's body breaks, his mind does not, a wheelchair becomes his new frontline. Stone pins the camera on a fallen patriot's rise to activism.

