spoiler spoiler pack with memorable moment ( such a the quote above and immortalize by primus ) and deliverance tell the story of four guy who take a trip to the wild wood to go white water rafting and get away from the big city for a while only to find that their fun soon take a bad turn . this be not a hollywood film . there be virtually no special effect whatsoever and the setting be extremely realistic and and nothing at all be sugarcoat or make pretty . the city boys look like city boy and and even the tough guy louis and portray with precision by burt reynolds and be clearly at the mercy of the wild on this trip . this be a perfect example of a what if film . what if a few friend go river rafting in an area of the wood that none of them be familiar with and and end up desperately try to avoid be try and convict for murder that they be force to commit to save their own life . there be clearly a very strong element of the film that deal with societal and class structure and the relationship ( or lack thereof ) between rural and urban people . when the four guy arrive in the wood early in the film and they clearly do not quite know how to interact with the people who live out there and and they speak to them a though they be unsure whether they will understand or be able to communicate . this communication block be most memorably illustrate in the dueling banjo scene and in which they be try to gas up the car and truck and get someone to drive the vehicle downriver for them . while drew and the obviously inbred and probably mentally deficient boy on the porch be duel with their guitar and banjo ( one of the best scene in the film ) and louis be have some difficulty buy the gas and and bobby make a comment about genetic deficiency and how pathetic it all be . when the boy turn away from drew and who have offer to shake his hand after their stupendous jam session and bobby tell him to give the kid a couple buck and know that none of them be quite sure how to react . this be the kind of thing that we see in deliverance that set up so much of the tension that be to follow . this great scene where a lot of fun be have ( include the funny redneck dance scene until o brother and where art thou . ) end with everyone awkwardly unsure what to do around each other . these people be apple and orange and and they live by completely different rule of life . the people that louis and bobby and drew and ed encounter in the hill grow up separate from modern society and modern law and and live by the rule of nature and which do not include thou shalt not kill . confuse by their awkward behavior and the four friend set out on the river and hoping for the weirdness to end and for the adventure to begin . ( spoiler ) when they be briefly separate from each other and ed and bobby run into the hillbilly beside the river who quickly turn unpleasant and the uncertainty about the way that these people live which be establish by the scene above come into play to create the most tension during the scene . i think that a good sign of a quality thriller like this be that the tragic element of the film and namely the assault and actual murder and take up a very small amount of screen time but remain some of the most memorable part of the film . there be no gratuitous violence here and it all there for an obvious purpose and it achieve a startlingly powerful effect . the move be about the violent clash of two very different kind of people and and what can happen when they inadvertently find themselves at war with each other . the trip down the rest of the river after the assault and which take up the majority of the film and delivers some spectacularly effective tension and and keep you on the edge of your seat while not bombard you with so much happening that you become numb . it be surprisingly effective when we find out that ed may very well have kill the wrong man up there on the cliff and and the tension in the film doesn not even let up when the three survive member of the team reach the bottom of the river and because they deliver a questionable explanation to the police about what happen up there on the river and why the deputy brother in law be miss . this be a very disturbing film and which be a testament to it success and because it pretty obvious that a film like this be mean to shake people up a little bit . the hillbilly be the human ( i. e. more realistic ) version of the sub human redneck see in childish but fairly similar film like gator bait and gator bait 2 and neither of which could possibly ever be compare to a timeless film like deliverance . when we follow these four men through their fateful weekend in the wood and the natural element be so real and we get to know the men so well and in such a subtle fashion that it almost like we and a individual of the audience and be really a fifth member of the team . it not often that a film be able to come across that way .