Nothing describes what really drives people to the cinema better than box office figures, which always offer the overwhelming reality that contradicts the desires of those who want original ideas.
Right now, we’re seeing that people want more dinosaurs on screen, no matter what. A phenomenon caused by “Jurassic World”.
The park is open
Although Steven Spielberg’s original film was the one that sparked the love for this world, it was Colin Trevorrow’s film that revived it and turned it into one of Hollywood’s most lucrative franchises. A science fiction blockbuster that grossed $1.671 billion and can now be seen on television on FDF at 10:55 p.m.
Two decades after the attempt to open the original park, John Hammond’s dream has finally come true. On Nublar Island, a theme park has been created with reborn dinosaurs and new hybrids that thrill millions of visitors who flock there every year. But one day, life finds a way again without asking permission.
Giving it the benefit of the doubt, there is something about the park’s aberrant structure that clearly inherits the cynical edge of the original, showing the inevitable condemnation of being carried away by greed and extreme commercialisation. Yes, it’s ironic considering the reflection these films have on real life, but there are people who also missed the nuances in “The Matrix”.
Of course, the first film wasn’t just a diatribe against megalomania; there was also a sense of wonder about dinosaurs that created a paradox that ended up working in its favour. Trevorrow, apart from not being Spielberg, doesn’t have that sense, and this makes “Jurassic World” above all a slightly masochistic spectacle that gradually loses its power.
The schematic nature of its narrative, its fairly interchangeable characters played by Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, and effective but unquestionable visual effects make everything border on the functional. Enjoyable, at least in parts, but clearly another example of how the magic that Spielberg couldn’t recapture in his sequel wasn’t going to be cloned by anyone else.
