The movie is about a killer Great White shark that is terrorizing a small New England town called Amity. ... Finally, the sharking industry boosted, especially for Great Whites. Unfortunately, this movie put them on the endangered species list. ... Ebert says that Spielberg's strategy of keeping the shark more talked about than seen and seen more in terms of its actions than in the flesh is what makes the film great. ... Spielberg leaves the shark under the table for most of the movie. ...

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"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."... Furthermore, let us consider how many times dolphins have saved people's lives that were threatened by a shark. Swimmers suddenly found themselves being the potential prey of a shark as dolphins formed a circle around the swimmer to protect him and succeeded. There was no reason for those highly intelligent dolphins to help the swimmer-nevertheless they endangered their own lives for the swimmer's life. ... I agree with Singer when he says that the "basic elemen...

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