{"id":584373,"date":"2023-07-26T01:17:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T22:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/after-the-bite-review-hbos-cape-cod-shark-attack-doc-is-admirably-restrained\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T01:17:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T22:17:23","slug":"after-the-bite-review-hbos-cape-cod-shark-attack-doc-is-admirably-restrained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/after-the-bite-review-hbos-cape-cod-shark-attack-doc-is-admirably-restrained\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018After the Bite\u2019 Review: HBO\u2019s Cape Cod Shark Attack Doc Is Admirably Restrained"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2a72f2124e4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2a72f2124e4\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/after-the-bite-review-hbos-cape-cod-shark-attack-doc-is-admirably-restrained\/#After_the_Bite\" >After the Bite<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    If you ever had any doubt about how corporate mergers can make for strange bedfellows \u2014 and it\u2019s 2023, so you should have gotten this memo long ago \u2014 one need look no further than <em>After the Bite<\/em>, a documentary programmed to play like the answer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly unasked question, \u201cWhat would h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en if Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav forced HBO to participate in Shark Week?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Presumably, the creative origins of Ivy Meeropol\u2019s (<em>Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn<\/em>) film and Discovery\u2019s annual celebration of all things toothy and ichthyological were completely separate. But following its initial airing on HBO, <em>After the Bite<\/em> will migrate over to Max, where it can be promoted next to such Shark Week titles as <em>Serial Killer Red Sea Attacks<\/em>, <em>The Shark of the Moral Universe Bends Toward Carnage <\/em>and <em>Great White Fight Club<\/em> (only two of those are real).<\/p>\n<div class=\"review-summary-card\">\n<div class=\" lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-a-125 u-background-color-honey-light \">\n<div class=\"lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column u-width-275@tablet u-border-b-1@mobile-max u-border-r-1@tablet u-border-dotted lrv-u-margin-r-150 lrv-u-padding-r-150 lrv-u-margin-r-00@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-r-00@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-b-125@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-b-075@mobile-max\">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  lrv-u-font-family-primary u-font-size-34 u-font-size-38@desktop-xl lrv-u-line-height-small lrv-u-margin-b-125 \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"After_the_Bite\"><\/span>\n<p>                    After the Bite      <\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>                    <span class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-font-family-accent lrv-u-font-weight-bold lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-font-size-16 lrv-u-display-block\">The Bottom Line<\/span><br \/>\n                    <span class=\"c-span  u-font-size-22@tablet u-font-style-italic lrv-u-font-family-secondary\"><\/p>\n<p>    Admirably un-sensationalistic.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>                            <strong>Airdate: <\/strong>10 p.m. Wednesday, July 26 (HBO)<br \/><strong>Director: <\/strong>Ivy Meeropol<br \/>\n            <span><br \/>\n                                            <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Discovery has mastered the art of the sensationalistic title and poster for its Shark Week programming, but some of the lineup (not all, but some) in the popular block has substance. As would befit an HBO approach to the subject, <em>After the Bite<\/em> starts its story at the point of greatest sensationalism and, from there, goes quiet and pragmatic, eschewing high-pitched shrieking and chummed waters in favor of a more ideologically varied approach. I don\u2019t think Meeropol\u2019s formal choices always match the story she wants to capture, and <em>After the Bite<\/em> runs out of energy well before the end of its 90-minute running time. But I mostly enjoyed the idea of a more muted version of <em>Jaws <\/em>that suggests that if we have a contemporary shark attack problem, the solution is going to require more than a bigger boat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Everybody in <em>After the Bite<\/em> is, unavoidably, well aware of <em>Jaws<\/em>. The old fishermen at the dive bar joke about it. The Wellfleet, Massachusetts, drive-in movie theater is showing it as part of a summer double-bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Tragically, the documentary\u2019s focal area of Cape Cod is still living in the aftermath of the deadly 2018 shark attack that killed Arthur Medici \u2014 still seeking answers as to what happened on that horrible September day and trying to figure out the necessary steps to keep it from ever happening again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    As Meeropol\u2019s chosen title suggests, the documentary is not about that one fatal attack. The day is remembered by several witness, but the documentary deftly avoids any predictable shock tactics. There are no reenactments. The footage from that day is limited to snapshots taken on the beach. The focus isn\u2019t on visceral horror or visceral sentiment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    What Meeropol and so many of the documentary\u2019s featured characters want to do is take a step back to reflect, to avoid rushes to judgment or action \u2014 though the actions that are taken both mirror and contrast with the ways in which the residents of Amity handled Steven Spielberg\u2019s fictional shark attack. There are traces of local politics, but in this case it\u2019s reasoned town hall meetings with nary an oblivious, cold-hearted mayor in sight. There are scenes with biologists out on the water looking for sharks, but armed with tagging devices instead of weapons. When a lifeguard at a beach spots what he thinks is a fin on the horizon and sounds an alarm, the exit from the water is calm and orderly and, rather than panicking, people stand on the shoreline filming the placid waters with their phones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>After the Bite<\/em> is a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of snapshots or vignettes capturing a community and its responses instead of a thriller or a work of high drama. Elites worried that the risk of sharks will destroy the tourist economy are matched with locals pondering declines in the commercial fishing economy. Animal rights activists celebrating the return of both the sharks and seals \u2014 the sharks\u2019 favorite prey \u2014 to an environment in which they had seemingly been wiped out are matched with advocates for amendments to the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. And while those advocates insist that they\u2019re not suggesting seals need to be killed off just a wee bit, they\u2019re definitely not <em>not<\/em> suggesting that. Many of the documentary\u2019s arguments coalesce in a hard-to-dispute portrait of nature out of balance because of a combination of climate change and entrenched human behaviors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The documentary is structurally loose \u2014 so much so that it would be impossible to know when it was filmed if not for the proliferation of masks \u2014 but maybe could have stood to be even looser. It\u2019s half a very traditional documentary with experts and local talking heads, and half a fly-on-the-wall v\u00e9rit\u00e9 documentary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    People whose curiosity tends toward the former will be frustrated by how Meeropol hovers on the outside of every argument, providing lots of nebulous context but never pushing politicians or scientists for concrete answers or explanations. It\u2019s a lot of half-arguments, reflective, I guess, of nature\u2019s fundamental unknowability. Those with a preference for something more contemplatively formless will find the available structuring to be obtrusive, with the moments of over-explaining and narrativizing rendering the snapshots almost confusing. Why, for example, in a documentary set largely in Provincetown is the only acknowledgment of the gay community a two-minute glimpse of a shark-heavy musical revue that\u2019s formally and tonally unconnected to anything else?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    That indecisiveness rendered the doc\u2019s lack of a real ending unsatisfying for the part of me looking for answers and unconvincing for the part of me craving something more impressionistic. Still, being neither fish (sincere apologies) nor fowl doesn\u2019t mean that I didn\u2019t enjoy <em>After the Bite<\/em> as something of a Shark Week bait (more apologies) and switch. It\u2019s a serious-minded documentary in a genre that has strayed far from anything serious-minded.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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