Deliverance.
45 years old and hasn't aged one bit. "That scene" all the way up until its resolution is still absolutely mind blowing in its intensity.
This was Ned Beatty's first motion picture. Talk about giving it his all. There's such a thing as brave acting. This is the very definition of it.
Jon Voight deserved an Oscar. Best work Burt Reynolds did in his entire career.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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