‘Deliverance’ Has an Infamous Rape Scene, and Men Keep Failing to Understand It
July 31, 2017
45 years later and the subtext of John Boorman’s thriller is still widely misunderstood.
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45 years later and the subtext of John Boorman’s thriller is still widely misunderstood.
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