A serious case of 'Deliverance' doing for the banjo, what 'Jaws' did for the ocean. Thanks for ruining that instrument for me guys.
"It was like Deliverance out there" - I have lost count at the number of times I have heard that phrase. I simply had to finally watch this film that had somehow etched its way into every day vocabulary around the world. I happened to live in a place where that description had been used once or twice too.
Definitely a movie well ahead of its time. I wasn't expecting the famous banjo scene to happen so early in the film - it was brilliant. The other infamous "rape scene" was just as disturbing as I imagined. Maybe even more so. The shock value was not bad for a film that came out in 1972. Those two famous scenes aside, the film had a meandering kind of vibe about it and became a little boring, barring one or two rapids scenes.
Not a film I'd watch twice, but glad I finally watched this nevertheless.
"It was like Deliverance out there" - I have lost count at the number of times I have heard that phrase. I simply had to finally watch this film that had somehow etched its way into every day vocabulary around the world. I happened to live in a place where that description had been used once or twice too.
Definitely a movie well ahead of its time. I wasn't expecting the famous banjo scene to happen so early in the film - it was brilliant. The other infamous "rape scene" was just as disturbing as I imagined. Maybe even more so. The shock value was not bad for a film that came out in 1972. Those two famous scenes aside, the film had a meandering kind of vibe about it and became a little boring, barring one or two rapids scenes.
Not a film I'd watch twice, but glad I finally watched this nevertheless.