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Within an IDMb review online concerning the movie “Deliverance”, I stumbled across a review titled “The thin line between “civilization” and barbarism” by a reviewer from California. According to him or her, the movie seemed to depict the collision that happens when civilized city meets the brutal back-woods. The country people are only seen within the movie thus far that we have watched in class from a primitive, inbred, violent prospective and it is very clear that the reviewer kept a steady negative opinion of the natives of Appalachia for the duration of the film and possibly even after. The author of this review even refers to the two rapists as “two of the most frightening villains of all times” but does not seem to separate them from the other innocents within the movie. He or she does not question the depiction of the mountain men as ill-kept rapists but instead simply seems to buy into the idea that wild country works it’s magic to create wild men who are capable of horrific acts unlike the city people who are civilized and superior to the mountain folk every way. Films like this that are seen in an almost timeless, classic, light are dangerous for the society’s that are given the villainous role. The viewer is urged to feel sorry for the city boys who got trapped in a beautiful land surrounded by backwards people. If someone had no reason to not fully trust a movie where the American stud Burt Remolds uses and arrow to slay a mountain man rapist, it would not be difficult to foreshadow someone spending the rest of their life thinking of Appalachia with an sense of disgust and fear.