 7_Deliverance
(1972, dir. John Boorman)
Best Seen: Warner DVD
Time Code: Chapter 13, 42:00
Few fears tear deeper into the fragile fabric of being a man than this: getting anally raped by a hillbilly in the woods. And Deliverance, largely, is to blame. This cautionary tale about four friends who venture into the Georgia backwoods for a canoe trip reaches fever pitch when Ned Beatty is forced, at gunpoint, to “squeal like a pig” by the gnarliest mountain men imaginable. Boorman and writer James Dickey get credit for crushing the cushy, protected world of the white-collar professional. But it’s Beatty whose ass is on the line; it’s his pink, dirt-slathered flesh and wails of anguish that leave a lasting, disturbing impression.
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