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Yar, you be here: Deliverance > Customer Reviews Deliverance Customer Reviews (13 - 15 of 35 Reviews)IT GETS A 1/2 OF STAR 4 ME! I'M A CITY-SLICKER I DON'T RELATE 2 THAT "BOONDOX LIVING"!!!!!
TO John Boorman THIS FILM WAS VERY Poor-MAN... THANKS 4 NOTHING SINCE I WASTED MY MONEY ON THIS BULLS**T!! I WANTED 2 GIVE IT A HALF OF A STAR! JON VOIGHT IS CAPABLE OF SO MUCH MORE... LIKE ANACONDA & ROSEWOOD, HIS' CHARACTERS WERE TRASHY PIECES OF SH** BUT HE DELIVERED!! Deliverance WAS ABOUT 4 WHITE MIDDLE CLASS FRIENDS WHO DECIDES 2 TRAVEL 2 THE WOODS 4 AN ALLEGED VACATION. THEY RUN INTO A GREATER EVIL IN THOSE WOODS & STRANGE THINGS START 2 OCCUR! THEY SPLIT INTO 2'S THEN JON & HIS' FRIEND RUN INTO SOME FILTHY Rednecks... 1 Redneck HOLDS A WEAPON TO JONS' HEAD WHILE THE OTHER RAPES HIS FRIEND (UNCALLED 4)!!!! THIS EVIL COMES AT THEM UNTIL MOST OF THEM ARE DEAD. "I'M NOT SURE WHAT CATAGORY Deliverance FALLS INTO? THE ONLY SCENES THAT WERE GROTESQUE WAS SEEING A BOY RAPE A MAN & THE WAY THE BOY LOOKED WHO WAS PLAYING THE BANJO (THAT'S IT)!! THEN EVEN THE SOUND OF THAT GOT ON MY DAMN NERVES!!!! ***MOST OF THESE VIEWERS MUST'VE SEEN SOMETHING THAT "I DID NOT SEE", BECAUSE THIS WAS WORST THAN "hollow man" & "girls fight tonite"!!!! THESE MOVIES SHOULD BE TOOKEN OFF THE MARKET & "NEVER SEEN AGAIN" (YEAH I WROTE IT)!!!! I SOLD MINE BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT 2 REMEMBER THAT I WASTED $21 ON THAT SH** (GARBAGE)!!!!*** Classic, Disturbing, Intriguing
Genre: Thriller, Drama Genre Grade: B+ Final Grade: A- Deliverance is a great film about four friends who decide to go on a canoe trip in a river that's about to be flooded and turned into a lake. Before setting out on their journey they encounter a boy who plays the banjo and one of the men plays the guitar. Together they play "Dueling Banjos" in the best scene of the film. While this scene might not completely fit into the movie, it became very famous and gave this movie its claim to fame (along with the disturbing line "He's got a real pretty mouth on him, don't he?"). The movie itself was very realistic - as though the viewer were standing on the riverside watching the events of their fateful trip unfold. I will not spoil what all happens because that's part of the thrill of watching this movie. Keep in mind that this film is not mainstream and offers no strong conclusion, but instead leaves you wondering what all was left in the river - what all is now lying at the bottom of that lake... Note: Mean Creek is sort of a "younger" version of this film - a movie which I highly recommend. Civility's Voyage Into Nature's Hidden Savagery
John Boorman's (Excalibur, Zardoz, Emerald Forest) adaptation of James Dickey's novel about the superficial urban mantle of untamed nature. A very powerful film now well known for its duelling banjo scene. The story follows four professionals from Atlanta who choose to find a remote stretch of river in the Appalachians to go rafting. The more the characters go into the country the more civilization seems to be decaying or non-existant. The people in those parts are inbred and not open to city folk. Once they find their perfect river, their trip soon becomes a nightmarish odyssey of survival none of them will ever forget. This film is really an allegory of the frailty of civilization and people's false sense of security they derive from it in a place where it obviously doesn't exist at all. The only character who realizes that immeditely is Burt Reynold's character who's more of an outdoorsman than the rest of his friends: he realizes that nature is not civilization and that it could care less about human life. Jon Voight's character is the philosophical introvert who also realizes this paradox but is more prone to thought as opposed to action. Ned Beatty is the epidemy of weak will whose feeble physique lets nature literally rear-end him. Finally Ronny Cox is the most civil of all of them and believes that respect and good manners will keep one free from harm. This is a great satire/drama and definitely one of Boorman's best films. The film's allegories are rich and the acting is top knotch by all of the lead actors. This is a pretty brutal movie however and is definitely not suited for any child under 13. This is a great movie to own more than to rent: it's a classic of cinema. If you like this film, you may also like Herzog's 'Aguirre: The Wrath of God' with Klaus Kinsky which has a similar plot in terms of the river being a metaphor and overlaps 'Deliverance' with similar themes as to nature's indifference to man.
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