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Magical Blog about dinosaurs by Josiah Clements▲
So on Sunday night we watched
Jurassic Park out on the lawn of the hub. Hurray for free soda, popcorn, candy,
and movies!
Jurassic park has the tone of a
fun-thrilling movie that you can just sit back and turn your brain off to
enjoy, but I’ve decided to give my thoughts and reflections on it because if
you actually keep your brain on (which I recommend you always do), you can find
that there are some heavy themes running through the veins of Jurassic park.
The main theme is summed up in one
line by Jeff Goldblum’s character Dr. Ian Malcolm: “Yeah, yeah, but your
scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop
to think if they should.” Dr. Malcolm said this to John Hammond (the man who
built Jurassic Park) in regards to John’s scientist bringing back dinosaurs
from extinction. This is the big message that stood out to me. Or rather, two
messages that stood out to me:
· Don’t play god.
And:
· Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.
How far is too far? We have achieved
amazing things through science that have helped all of mankind. So what’s the
limit? I don’t know. But I do know one thing: Playing god is dangerous. Just as
God’s creations turned on him, so did the dinosaurs turn on the scientists. Except
in the scientist’s case, the dinosaurs ate their faces. This is one of the
thoughts that lingered in my mind throughout the movie.
Another more positive theme through
out the movie was that “Life finds a way.” Nature adapts, even when you try to
control and restrain it, it still comes back. And it will eat your face.
~Josiah▲
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