I've started watching all the (decent) Spielberg films. Began last night with Duel, which is fucking mad. Jaws with a truck. It's some taut, stripped down, no-nonsense, white knuckle shit.
It starts and you think: he can't possibly sustain this over the course of a whole film can he? But he can. He so can.
Jaws. It is perfect. Flawless. Not one thing about it could be changed@ not one sound, one line, one shot, one tiny element of the performances. Nothing. There is, quite literally, nothing wrong with it.
It's odd, but watching it last night I realised that this film, more than maybe any other, has been with me my whole life. As a kid I loved it and it scared the living shit out of me. And now, as an adult, there are whole range of different pleasures you find in it.
The relationship between the three leads, the purity of having them alone on the boat for the final hour. The themes, sweet Jesus. The whole thing feels massively on point with Brexit or covid - people doing the easy popular thing and ignoring the empirical warning signs.
It's a work of genius. Literally and without caveat. If you haven't watched it for a while, I would strongly advise you do so tonight. And even if you have, you should probably do it anyway.
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