Jawsis about to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its release this summer.
All those things are objectively true.
But what makes it remain so popular all these decades later is something much more psychological.
It touches on a primordial fear buried in our reptilian brains.
Inthe men’s room of a restaurant.
Now THAT’S striking a nerve.
Just as I suspected.
As Matt Hooper so scientifically and dispassionately put it, “This is what happens.
It indicates the non-frenzied feeding of a large squalus - possibly Longimanus or Isurus glauca.”
And yet, it somehow manages to look even more horrifying than my worst fears imagined it.
At the risk of going full Jordan Peterson, but this is right out of Jonah and the Whale.
Which is an archetype representing a descent into hell itself.
The only upside is that a trip down a shark’s digestive tract would be over relatively quick.
As opposed to, of course, the whole eternity thing.
I’m swimming right for it’s great white butthole and getting it over as fast as sharkly possible.
I know one thing, I’ll never put on a life jacket again.
