Generation Bubble

An Inconvenient Boof: Deliverance's Troubled Ass Relief Program

Today’s installment of “bubble visions” discusses John Boorman’s Deliverance (1972), a film adapted from James Dickey’s novel of the same title. Deliverance, it seems, has indelibly embedded itself in popular consciousness, despite its being nearly 40 years old. The banjo-totin’ cretin with fingers of fury, Ned Beatty’s harrowing porcine approximations, vengeful crackers stalking the woods [...]