Diary entries forDeliverance
Deliverance
Feels weird, finally seeing it. The moments that snagged onto popular consciousness, so fleeting in actuality. (How many times has that happened? "I'm walkin' here" and others in that vein, a blink-and-you-miss it quality, outsized and decontextualized by time.) This rugged river passage does feel like one for the ages, though. Hard undercurrents of something more geologic throughout, and my goodness, the upheaval of a populace, their histories and sins about to be buried under the full weight of pRoGrEsS ItSeLf, transplant the dead and put the church on wheels and roll 'em on outta here. Is there high enough ground for our institutions? We'll just have to wait and see what the river gives us.
Deliverance
this is definitely NOT the film you want to watch when you’re about to go camping😃
Deliverance
Tragedy, murder, and fabrication glisten in the boundless flow of the Cahulawassee River. A cloak of crashing rapids beat down the rafts succumbed to its dangerous veil. Emotions fizzle within the narrow stream of river and life. America's back-country and its mountain men; despicable reflections of life's secluded beasts. As the day grows, so do the men in Deliverance, unearthing the unexpected and encountering death and survival in such harrowing and unforgettable form. Deliverance is an exquisitely raw experience depicted in realistic nature. Its almost a gut-punch by the end, but, it doesn't seem to live up to the intensity it tries to portray. For the most part, it isn't eventful enough to be considered engrossing entertainment. In fact, the way the film moves is almost frustrating. Deliverance can drag and then the next hit its audience hard with unsettling emotion or action, and yet, too many times does it seem to sink out of its greatness. Don't get me wrong, this is a good film, it just doesn't tackle its substance enough, despite the lesson that is learned in the end. 3.6/5
Deliverance
pretty cleanly divides into four parts—the problem is that the first half as a whole is just much better. you can feel the evil permeating the film and after The Scene it lightens up and almost becomes a more cliche adventure. “all men are capable of violence” seems to be the text, when the subtext is much more interesting. maybe a future watch will reveal more
