Steve Ahlman

Does God create us?

Does religion permit you to believe in extraterrestrial life?

Or does religion prohibit you from believing in extraterrestrial life?

The movie is attempting to have all of these conversations about what we know, about what we don't know, about what we should know, how we should know it, the lengths people go to keep secrets, the trauma that people experience,

go through that makes them anti-humanist, non-human, all of that stuff.

The problem is the movie doesn't commit to any of those one things directly and doesn't actually interrogate them in any meaningful way.

So, like, when you have all of that together, think in the past, well, the reason why people love Spielberg movies so much is that Spielberg will give you this grand treatise on something by exploring

the smallest and most delicate human connection.

What is Jurassic Park about?

Jurassic Park is about protecting children from monsters of your own creation.

And that is what life is about.

Life is about protecting children from monsters of your own creation.

How do you protect kids from the monster that is capitalism, from the monster that is exploitation, from the monster that is playing good?

The dinosaurs in that movie

just represent some man's misplaced wonder.

And you have to protect kids from that.

And then what are the lessons that you learn?

You are in a dinosaur movie, but you're also in a dinosaur movie about trying to preserve the innocence of children.

And you get all the thrills and all the feeling of we might not be able to get there and the bad guys get spit in the face and you have corporate espionage and all of that stuff.

If you have to commit to that, though, in every single Spielberg movie, you commit to that.