Jurassic Park

Submitted by diaroxi on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM

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Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park shows us how important it is to respect nature. The film helps us realise how fatal the consequences of interfering with Mother Nature are. Of course, discovery is a wonderful thing, but man needs to know a limit.

The big danger when John Hammond creates Jurassic Park, is that he isn't properly informed about what can go wrong. As Doctor Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler argue throughout the movie, we don't know what to expect when we mess with nature. In the movie, Dr Ian Malcolm argues that dinosaurs have already had their shot, and they were selected for extinction. So if nature has set things one way, and man has no right to mess up the order. An analogy that Dr. Ian Malcolm uses in the movie compares John Hammond to a kid that's playing with his father's gun. He is discovering new and wonderful things, but at the same time unleashing unknown dangers. He is opening another Pandora's box

Many risks were underestimated in the construction of Jurassic Park. John Hammond believed that once the Park was established, the responsibilities would end, and everything would fall into place. But, as the movie progressed he realised that his creation wasn't perfect. We get a glimpse of the problem list at Jurassic Park, which reaches up to 151 problems! Still, Hammond chooses to ignore these ‘minor' defects (such as car headlights not operating, or car locking systems), and hopes that they will resolve themselves. He tries to deny these problems to himself, dismissing them as trivial or insignificant. These are obvious pin-points from the beginning that the Park isn't that stable, from things such as the dinosaurs not following the Park times, and dinosaurs falling sick. Unfortunately, the problems build up, and as proved at the end of the movie, the results are much more destructive.

These problems tend to lead back to the issue of ‘how much do we know about dinosaurs'. First of all, the ecosystem that the...

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