Setting a precedent

Rating: 10/10 (23 June 2020)

Steven Spielberg is a director who has made many tapes throughout his career. Many of them have marked a generation, but only a few more can say that they completely changed the cinema. This is the case of 'Jaws', a film that since its premiere left an indelible mark in the history of cinema and in the way of making and selling cinema.
As a story we have a simple plot, a shark is scared of tourists and it is necessary to hunt it in the ocean. With this premise, Spielberg manages to revolutionize the horror cinema that existed at the time, providing elements that continue to this day. The shots, the camera movements, the use of sound, the importance of music, the way to cause tension and fear are so perfectly done that it is impossible not to put this film as the mother of all subsequent films of this genre (along with some other films from that time that also set a precedent).
'Jaws' is without a doubt a masterpiece of horror cinema and a film that changed cinematographic art forever. A tape that will always be the inspiration of his later ones and that will never be forgotten for his great mastery.