"Forgive the silly pun, but there was before and there was after Steven Spielberg's Jaws. That was true both for Hollywood and for every nervous beachgoer of the next 50 years. The sunbathers of sleepy Amity Bay are helpless against the unexpected great white shark that hunts their coasts; Spielberg's talent for suspense, effective horror shocks, and ingenious reinvention of the classic animal-attack movie remain as impressive as ever."
"Artists of the stature of Stanley Kubrick and Dario Argento, with their utterly unique worldview and dazzling visual bag of tricks, were producing film-as-art on a high level. Combining the heady years of the antiwar movement, the disillusionment of Watergate, the mores of thr sexual revolution, and the uncertainty of where the world was headed next, the films of 1975 were truly remarkable."
"In this pacy, slick Hollywood thriller that leans into the paranoia of Nixon-era wiretapping and mistrust of government institutions like the CIA, Robert Redford stars as a nerdy CIA researcher whose life changes in an instant when he goes out for lunch and returns to work to find that he is the sole surviving employee of his office; all his colleagues have been assassinated."
Summer 1975 unleashed Jaws, a Spielberg-directed thriller that redefined the blockbuster with taut suspense, effective shocks, and a renewed animal-attack template. The year also produced conspiracy thrillers, period dramas, counterculture satires, and anti-authority crime films that captured post-Vietnam disillusionment. Filmmakers such as Stanley Kubrick and Dario Argento pursued bold visual styles and auteurist filmmaking across genres. Cultural forces—antiwar activism, Watergate disillusionment, the sexual revolution, and societal uncertainty—shaped thematic preoccupations and audience reception. The resulting slate of films combined commercial impact with artistic risk, making 1975 a standout year in modern cinema history.
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