Jasmeet KaurEnglish 101A – 02R. Sherman26 February 2014Jurassic Park: artificial fun or artificial mistake?Jurassic Park, released in 1993, is set on a remote island off the coast of Costa Rica, where genetically modified dinosaurs roam. Jurassic Park is set to become a theme park, where people from all over the world will be able to pay to come and walk among the dinosaurs. John Hammond, the owner of InGen, a bioengineering company, and owner of the park, is excited to show the world his new amusement park. Hammond is very proud of what he and his scientists accomplished in creating Jurassic Park. The film is set over two days, in which Hammond must convince his four guests: Donald Gennaro, a lawyer, Ian Malcolm, a mathematician, Alan Grant, a well-known paleontologist, and Ellie Satler, a paleobotanist, that his park is actually something worth investing in and opening to the public. During their time in Jurassic Park, the computer systems fail and the dinosaurs escape from their cages and go on a rampage. The underlying theme of this action-packed thriller is a warning of the terrible consequences of mixing human knowledge with greed and the thirst for power and control of nature and the natural world. The film begins on Isla Nublar, a small island off the coast. of Costa Rica. A large group of men are handling a large container with some kind of creature inside. The creature in the container tries to escape and, in a sudden panic, a man is killed by the animal. The film cuts to a mine in the Dominican Republic, where miners are attempting to extract amber for a genetic engineering company, called InGen. The owner of the island has been under scrutiny by a lawyer, who has been worrying... half document... since 1993; the advances in biotechnology and computer systems are astonishing. Cloning has made progress over the years: it has been successful with animals, and now scientists are considering trying to clone humans. But along with advances in research and technology, humans seem to be taking steps backwards in terms of humility towards nature and the natural world. The boundaries between morality and ethics and the ability to conduct experiments are constantly being pushed to the limit. There is so much that humans don't know, don't understand. It is foolish to even assume that it is possible to fully understand the consequences of deadly scientific and/or genetic experiments in their totality. The environment cannot be controlled. He is a force of nature that will happen the way he wants it to happen; it is not something that science or humanity can control.