I’m rewatching Jurassic Park, and I’m noticing two things:
1. Wow, do the effects hold up. Even the CGI! It was 1993 and the CGI still looks better than a lot of stuff nowadays:
Wow.
2. Ian Malcom’s arguments make no sense. Here’s his opinions, summarized:
- It is lazy and unethical for scientists to build off previous work. All scientific projects should begin by independently inventing fire and work up from there.
- Chaos theory suggests that complex situations are inherently unpredictable. Therefore, we can confidently predict how this park is going to turn out.
- Chaos in the mathematical sense is totally the same thing as chaos in the colloquial “lots of violence and noise and it’s confusing” sense.
- Life, ah, finds a way, and that is why humans have never been able to confine animals or control their breeding.
Jurassic Park wants to be a story about how Man shouldn’t play God and what happens when scientists go too far. But it’s not. It’s really just a story about why Man shouldn’t house large aggressive animals in a facility with weaker security precautions than the average PetSmart.
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