First class deliverance (Deliverance (DVD))

Member Name: ianay

Product:	Deliverance (DVD)
Date:	21/03/02 (105 review reads)
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Advantages: Acting, Storyline, scenery

Disadvantages: setting Stereotypes?

Deliverance is a thriller that forces the viewer to think about the consequences and meaning of our actions, no matter how justified. If you kill someone out of defense, would you take your chances going to the authorities, knowing the dead man's family and friends would be judging you?

It is also a movie from the "old school" of films, modernized for the seventies in content. Rather than relying on endless explosions and special effects, it instead focuses on a few dramatic scenes. Modern viewers might find this boring, but real life isn't non-stop action either. It also had Jon Voight playing the character of the "civilized" man, unwilling and unable to defend himself in the wild; a modern movie with today's cynical views would have no place for such a person.

I was surprised at how a pre-muoustached Burt Reynolds showed some serious acting talent; I wonder how his career might have been different if he hadn't become the "bandit"

Its a shame the first scene anyone thinks of this movie is the Sodomy scene. There is a lot more to this movie than that, though this scene is acted wonderfully.

This has to be one of the greates movies of the 70's.

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