Jurassic Park

As we watched Jurassic Park the past few days in class I realized somthing that I haven't before, I really like that movie! I've seen it multiple times before, but I've never quite thought about how much I actually enjoy the movie. I still sit on the edge of my seat even when I know dinosaurs are going to pop out soon, and in my head I'm always rooting the characters on even though I know that they're going to survive. It seems weird to me that all of a sudden now I would realize that I really enjoy Jurassic Park, but I think it may be that I'm getting old enough to understand that the themes of the movie go beyond it just being a movie. I love being presented with bioethical questions, and Jurassic Park presents some of the big ones. Should we gentically modify creatures for desireable characteristics? Should cloning and increased stem cell research be allowed?How far is too far? In my opinion science has limits, and just because we are able to do something I don't necessarily think we should. Jurassic Park is a great example of this. Yes, the idea itself is far-fetched, but it represents a very current and ongoing debate. Humans don't and probably never will understand the power of life, evolution, and the creation of an organism and I think that's ok. There are some things that are probably best left unanswered because sometimes what we would do with that knowledge would be worse than never knowing at all. This is all my opinion of course, and I'm sure others certainly disagree. It's even hard for me because the idea that a cure for cancer could lie in experimenting with stem cells is a hard concept to just dismiss, but I think that it's important to keep in mind how far are we as a society willing to go? Besides the deep issues of the movie, I love the idea of how they were able to obtain dino DNA and recreate them even though it is technically impossible. However the movie is clever, charming, funny, inventive, suspenseful, and an overall great story, and I think that it may be one of my favorite movies because of this.