As a piece of American Pop culture, this movie is on the must see list. “Sometimes a man has to lose himself to find himself,” Burt Reynolds says, setting the stage for a parable about civilization’s encroachment on the few remaining wild places and sinister hillbillies that leads to a dehumanizing experience. It seems a bit uneven and episodic while watching it again, but still it is a movie frequently referenced in sitcoms and trivia games.