Jaws is one of the films that changed my life. No surprise, as it changed cinema itself, became the world’s first blockbuster, and launched the career of Steven Spielberg.
JAWS AT 50 is a captivating look at how the classic was made: a documentary on a truly perfect cinematic creation. Terrifying, stirring, adventurous, humorous, and a film that almost didn’t happen (it legitimately bothers me that in an alternate universe Jaws as we know it doesn’t exist). Jaws is as powerful today as it was a half-century ago: structured like a two-act play, and masterfully combining primal fears and human endurance, Psycho and Moby Dick, a monstrous force of nature and the villains of human greed. The beginning alone is so horrific that I still get knots in my stomach when I go swimming.
JAWS AT 50 is highly recommended.