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Cynicism In Jurassic Park

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In a world where culture and lifestyles are constantly evolving, we as a society need to sometimes take a step back to evaluate all the things that are being presented to see where our contemporary cultures values lie. Often times these motives or values are hidden within many subtle clues, these subtle clues being not of pure chance but by choice, these than culminate to express a larger picture. Nevertheless, many of these ulterior motives can only truly be understood by adding some form of cynicism. I don't mean cynicism in regard to being negative, I mean it by exposing and showing all the different avenues of the situation even if sometimes that is contrary to popular belief. That is why I choose to analyze the movie jurassic park, and …show more content…

Take for instance in Jurassic park the leading director of the amusement park was an elderly man named John Hammond. John being a bright and playful character, that truly embodied a child like spirit but was still revered with a great deal of respect. Now in Jurassic world the leading director of the amusement park did also embody a child like persona but was played by a middle aged man named Masrani who almost gave off the impression of being a successful business man. This may seem like an insignificant detail but does this slight change velociraptor character indicate a contemporary cultural value of how we as a society view and give respect? Another key clue that I find within Jurassic park is how the author chooses to illustrate our dependency on technology. In Jurassic park the whole island is supposed to be run by a series of computer …show more content…

Often times we do not see or understand these misconstrued values until they are shoved in our face. However, we can all begin to understand and analyze these contemporary cultural values by implementing some form of cynicism. cynicism in regard to exposing and showing all the different avenues of a situation even if sometimes it is contrary to popular belief be it in the form of a movie such as Jurassic Park and Jurassic World, to just regular life. There are so many intricate complexities to this world and to all of our lives it is simply an injustice to not use cynicism for if we do not expose our world in all avenues be it good or bad we are simply denying our selves a broader understanding of what makes up our world, and sometimes these big messages are discreetly put in movies and songs, and it is up to us to use cynicism to discover

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