Jaws

The movie Jaws was directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 1975. I watched it for the first time on the television set when I was little. I firstly knew that Americans as well as Japanese dislike the sound made by a person scratching the surface of a chalkboard when I saw the scene in which the shark hunter Quint makes the sound having the people in the room frown at him. I had remembered it and how horrible the enormous man-eating shark was before I watched the film again at Cineca Omori, a movie theater in Tokyo, in August 2019. The movie was boring until the middle but it was fun after that. Then in August 2020, I watched it for the third time on TV.

The story follows a man-eating shark and the people living in a tourist island where the man-eating shark emerges.

The battle scenes between the enormous shark and three men on Quint's boat were especially wonderful toward the ending. The movie deserves to be called as a masterpiece.

Of the three men, Brody was the police chief and had seasickness. Unexpectedly, he was kind of pathetic and tended to bitch about trifles, which was funny. I think that kind of snobbish middle-aged men like him will tend to behave that way in extreme situations. The other two men were Quint, a  shark hunter, and Hooper, a young consulting oceanographer. I felt comfortable watching the young Hooper who adored but sometimes opposed to the fisherman with a lot of experiences. Then the bold Quint looked exactly to be a man among men. The trio was amusing.

Honestly, I was bored until the middle, however, the early part of the flick before the battle scenes against the shark properly describes how stupid and ugly the people desperately living in the local society about half a century ago were. I got profoundly depressed seeing it and remembering people in the world these days, for I felt that human beings would not mentally evolve easily.