Steve Ahlman

Chuck, take it away.

All right, it's not boring.

So, um... Hmm.

So if we talk about the movie itself, right, before we even get into reactions, if we talk about the movie itself.

The movie itself is doing a lot of stuff.

The movie itself is both a commentary on contemporary world politics and the sort of uneasy feeling that we have just generally with the state of the world from a geopolitical standpoint, because that's a backdrop of the movie.

It's at least touching on that.

the movie is talking about uh human compassion what it means to be human it's supposed to be a film that talks about the metaphysics metaphysics of creation the metaphysics of creation so i say it's like you know whether or not an intelligent design uh could intelligently design more than earth because there's dogma that goes into where you believe that you come from if you believe that a in a creation is god

So did this God create everything?

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.