i watch this movie in the wee hour of the morning when i should have be asleep . this and in itself and be testimony that deliverance be a spell bind movie . i think boorman do a wonderful job on direct this film . how expertly the early scene with the hill folk and the dueling banjo be do . it show so well and early on how inherently reserve and simple the people of the area be . case in point near the end of the duel and the banjo play boy be smile ( love his banjo ) and but when draw try to shake the boy hand after the duel and the kid be too reserve to respond . the river trip never leave you bore and for sure . the rape scene be brutal and but necessary to show just what the group be up against in this backwoods area of georgia . i think beatty traumatic shock afterward be well do . some have say he be pretty unaffected by the ordeal . i disagree if you really payed attention and he be unresponsive during the entire action immediately follow and in which reynolds put the arrow through the attacker and they chase off the toothless guy . it be confuse when ed kill the other guy later and at the top of the cliff . it almost appear that the arrow be shoot while ed be curl up and expect to die and but then you realize the arrow he have shoot earlier have finally take effect . anyway and a great movie and and i be waver between an 8 and 9 on my vote and but after read a message from a disgruntled voter who give it a 1 and i give it a 10. this individual reasoning seem base on personal bias and rather than an objective viewpoint and and his vote be obviously a non correlate attempt to lower the rating .