What Is Allegorical Sharksploitation And Who Really Cares ?

 Allegorical Sharksploitation is a style of movie making that uses actions and situations to examine and satirize the human condition. This done through drama based on the insistence or the potential reality of a nonexistent shark as core premise. They can be feature- length or short movies. They can be comedic or a serious take on the human condition. I suppose all sharksploitation movies are about the human condition, but the absence of a shark seems to make the allegorical message more poignant. They are certainly not mainstream and most lean heavily toward art pretensions, Subway Shark is a self-proclaimed example of this. They are relatively new as the earliest known example dates from 2019 with The Sharks, a Latin American offering. Although the guru of this form of sharksploitation is Cody Clarke who is responsible for No Shark, Invisible Shark, Subway Shark. 

I am probably the only one that needs this sub classification in sharksploitation because I have consumed so much of it and will continue too unabated, given the steady flow of movies in production currently. 

I Don't Know If Its Art But It Is Pretentious.


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