A Love Letter To JAWS (1975)
Tourism has talons and these talons dig into communities in unflinching ways. Therefore, these places are complicated. Tourism touches most parts of the planet, but certain areas get more heat than others. This leaves locals stuck inside some twisted catch-22. What IS the cost of closing a beach? In the case of JAWS, the cost is four lives and 24 hours of income lost.
You Can’t Dodge the Preservation Themes in Dodgeball (2004)
There is always space for enjoying state-of-the-art amenities, but we also need intimate spaces. Intimacy encourages lifelong bonds. When you tear down places like Average Joe’s, you replace intimacy with money, and that’s a big issue we’re dealing with in the US now: late-stage capitalism.