i be a member of a canoeing club and i can tell you the truth that deliverance be synonomous with the peacefulness and tranquility of the experience . a we put our boat into the water and banjo echo in the back of the conscious mind . this movie be timeless because it wax philosophical of human place in nature and technology effect upon man relationship with nature . we see it in the bow fishing . we see it in the home make tent . there be also city man disdain and feeling of superiority to the rural woodsman cracker . the fact that the banker from atlanta ( ned beatty ) have bad teeth be mean to put him on the same level with the woodsman who also have bad teeth . ultimately and the struggle of life and death supersedes civilize man suppositives about the law . this canoe trip end too soon for the viewer and but alas not soon enough for the character .