the infamous game of russian roulette may or may not be historically accurate. for director michael canino, russian roulette is a metaphor for combat. really, the main element of combat is waiting in terms of firefight usually is fierce unbelievably, saying, and is over in a very sure. and then you write a dead, you're a paraplegic where you're alive. one of the 3 know in between when steven spielberg recreated the world war 2 d de landings in saving private ryan, he made it as visceral and violent as anything in fear. hunter spielberg wanted to try to put the viewer exactly in the position of one of the infantry soldiers, you know, who had bought his body was essentially, you know, a target the viewer can feel the fear, the, the excitement, the pressure, the terror, the nervousness, everything there is no other way that an audience would get that much of a strong impression of exactly what it was like to be in that battle. the it's very uncomfortable for the viewer. i'm sitting at the same time id in an almost perverse way. it's fascinating and it is because it's like going on a ghost, ri