After "Jaws", another entertainment film with the theme of "fish cannibalism". The prologue of the film is quite similar to that of "Jaws". It also describes a young man and a woman swimming in a pool where piranhas are kept. They are suddenly attacked by a mysterious school of fish, and blood is pouring out. After that, the plot unfolds with the whereabouts of a "tracing expert" Ma Qi. Due to the flexibility of the use of the camera lens and the tight editing, many scenes of fish-eating people in the film are quite frightening, and there are several scenes and the blood is unbearable to witness. However, because the production scale of this film is small and the drama is not as strong as that of "Jaws", its appeal is naturally inferior to that of "Jaws". The arrangement of the plot is also a bit far-fetched, from which we can see the common problem of commercial films "seeking only the end, not the means".
Piranha movie plot
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Extended Reading
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Maggie McKeown: Are there any other shacks around here?
Paul Grogan: Cabins! This is a cabin!
Maggie McKeown: Well, are there any more of them? Any place they might be hold up in?
Paul Grogan: There's an old fella named Jack who has a place downriver, but he woundn't treat any hospitality towards them. Oh, and there was some kind of Army test site way up on top of the mountain. But that closed down five, six years ago.
Maggie McKeown: C'mon, let's go.
Paul Grogan: To where?
Maggie McKeown: You're taking me up there.
Paul Grogan: Oh NO I'm not!
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Maggie McKeown: Mr. Grogan, I'm looking for two teenagers that disappeared a few weeks ago. Some friends of theirs said they went camping around here.
Paul Grogan: Well, I haven't seen them. You talk to the sheriff's people?
Maggie McKeown: I did. They told me that it's a pretty big mountain area.
Paul Grogan: It is.
Maggie McKeown: So... I was wondering if there are any places around here they might be or if they may have gone for a swim.
Paul Grogan: Well if they drowned, they'd be swept down to the dam. So, you're starting off at the wrong end.
Maggie McKeown: Boy, you're the wrong end all right!