To prepare for 47 Meters Down, I asked my friend Brad lots of shark trivia questions over dinner. He, after all, needed to be ready for the movie too. Did you know that great white sharks have deep blue eyes? Yeah, the movie Jaws would have you believe that sharks have black eyes...like those of a doll that has emotionless buttons for eyes. I think it was Quinn that described it that way. And yeah, I can rattle off names like "Quinn" the crazy captain of the ill-fated boat in Jaws because I watch it all the time. Jaws is kind of timeless.
More things to know about great whites: they are warm-blooded. Their skin is comprised of extremely tiny teeth instead of scales and in the olden days, people would use the shark skin as sandpaper. More facts: no one knows how great white sharks mate or where they give birth. It's never been observed in the wild. Additionally, great white sharks possess seven senses (two more than humans). They have tiny receptors that allow them to sense electrical impulses within living things. The other sense is a pressure gauge, giving them specific knowledge of how much pressure they are experiencing in their environment.
Going through all of these facts with my best friend was a lot of fun over dinner, but the actual movie 47 Meters Down was terrifying. The premise was pretty simple, and you actually get all of the plot from watching the trailer. Two girls on vacation go for a shark dive in a cage, the cage breaks, and they wind up 47 meters down on the bottom of the ocean surrounded by hungry great white sharks. That's pretty much when the terror starts and doesn't let up until the last minute of the movie. Let's just put it this way, I don't think I will ever put my toe even so much as an inch in the ocean.
If you like a stressful edge of your seat thriller, you owe it to yourself to see this latest shark movie. It's pretty darn good.
It sounds terrifying.
ReplyDeleteEeek. Then you don't want to be anywhere near me right now. It's been all over the local news--sharks in the local waters. A lot of them. Beaches have had to be closed at various points.
ReplyDeleteNote to self: Must watch. There's been a Jaws rerun on our TV lately which has been fun. Have you ever watched the documentary about the shark man? I forget his name. Sharks have a sensitive spot on their nose and if you stroke it they go into a trance, so he set about the world tasking himself with trying this on larger shakrs. He managed it on a Tiger shark and ended up swimming with a female great white. It was really interesting...
ReplyDeletePoor sharks get a bad rap! It's their ocean - humans should leave 'em alone ;)
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