While watching Jurassic Park in class I was reminded of my childhood. My brother and I loved the movie while we were kids. In fact, we watched it several times a week and had matching Jurassic Park t shirts. (Yeah, I'd be jealous if I were you too). While I watched in class I was able to understand things a lot more.
I tried to watch the movie with a scientific lens. My level of understanding and intelligence has grown slightly since I was 5 years old which allowed to make more sense of the movie. For example, the idea of cloning and genetic engineering in the movie meant little to me as an adorable red-headed child. It is interesting to me that Crichton blends fiction with science so easily. I've read many of Crichton's books before and have looked into the research and writing process that Crichton went through as an author and found that Crichton cared a lot of the science in his novels. Crichton committed himself to making his books based on scientific information, which I think is a really interesting way of writing a fiction novel. Crichton could have stretched the science even more in many of his books but chose not to stray extremely far from realistic possibilities.
Jurassic Park is a really awesome movie. I wouldn't be opposed to watching it a second time just for a re-cap of things.
I've had people in the past try to talk me into watching all 3 of the movies. :)
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