The rape of the natural world?

Rating: Null/10 (26 March 2002)

This movie, was, in 1993, a visually spectacular phenomenon that has set the standard for special effects in many subsequent films.
The musical score by the brilliant John Williams is phenomenal - the entire score is well worth purchasing in it's own right, and it compliments the movie beautifully. However, it is Goldblum's character who has some important and profound insights into the whole concept of a man-made amusement park which disregards the natural world. In the wake of the discovery of genetic cloning, these insights are even more profound. He refers to it as 'the rape of the natural world'. "You stood on the shoulders of geniuses, and before you even knew what you had, you packaged it and patented it, and now you're selling it". When life imitates fiction - oh the irony! And, as he says, "you were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, that you didn't stop to think if you should". A great film.