Wednesday March 17th

Deliverance

This is a 'rugged contest between a quartet of city folk and the white water rapids of the Cahulawassee River" - Film Quarterly.

Deliverance is not simply another adventure movie - the multiplicity of themes soon makes this apparent. For example, it is not man's physical strength and cool courage that wins when pitted against a cruel nature, as in a typical adventure story. It is the ordinary humanity that is in all of us that proves to be the group's greatest asset.

The film impressed me, first and foremost, as being very real and vital. The rapid pace of the action matched the frequent and sudden changes of emotion, and overall it was totally absorbing.