A beautiful story about a boy and his shark.

Rating: 10/10 (10 March 1999)

Not quite. But when I think of "Jaws", I think of a film that I can watch over and over again and never grow tired of it. Definitely one of my favourite films.
Since seeing "Jaws" many years ago, I became fascinated with sharks. I saw it around 1981 at the age of 10. I read every book I could get my hands on at my public school library. What I found in the process, is that not only is the ocean filled with a variety of sharks, but lots of other equally deadly creatures. I think that is what freaked me out beyond the film. I have always been afraid of the ocean since. I attribute that to Steven Spielberg.
Sometimes when I watch this film, during one of the calmer moments, like Brody and his son at the dinner table, I'm struck by the beauty of the film, in its aesthetics, later I'll be drawn in by the pace, story and suspense of a truly masterful film.
I never did get to see the film in the theater. In the early 1980s, we rented a VTR on a monthly basis and would periodically rent movies from the local video store, "Videoflicks", which was an excursion that was always an exciting treat for my siblings and I.
For my birthday party, I wanted to watch "Jaws" with my friends, and my mother was a little concerned. She was debating whether we should do it or not, worried what the parents of the other kids would say as the film scared her pretty badly too.
She was worried about it until my 5 year old brother said, "Aw mom, it's just a mechanical shark."
Of course, he too is traumatized, as were most of the kids at the party I'm sure.