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Jurassic Park
Movie

Jurassic Park

1993 • Unknown

Woke Score
4
out of 10

Plot

A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.

Overall Series Review

The 1993 film is fundamentally a cautionary science-fiction tale about the ethical peril of corporate greed and technological hubris, exploring the idea that humanity cannot fully control the complex systems of nature. The narrative centers on universal themes of survival, responsibility, and the natural order versus man’s attempt to play God. The main characters are judged by their competence and moral choices during the crisis, not by their identity group. While a primary critique is aimed at the wealthy, male-driven scientific and capitalist project that created the disaster, this critique is framed as a universal warning against human arrogance. Female characters are highly competent and even drive the central acts of survival, and the male protagonist's arc is centered on embracing fatherhood and protection. The film is largely free of identity-based political lectures and maintains a traditional structure regarding family and gender, though it contains an explicitly anti-theistic philosophical line that places man as the destroyer of God.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics2/10

Characters are judged by competence and merit under duress. The wealthy entrepreneur and the greedy saboteur, both white males, are the clear antagonists whose hubris and greed cause the disaster, but this vilification is based on universal moral failing, not their identity. The Black chief engineer is portrayed as capable and professional.

Oikophobia4/10

The central theme is a direct and sustained attack on the Western/Capitalist idea of scientific mastery and control over nature. The hubris of modern, wealthy Western man is shown to lead to catastrophe. However, the critique is aimed at unrestrained greed and a lack of humility in the scientific project, not the wholesale demonization of heritage or institutions like the family.

Feminism7/10

The female protagonist, Dr. Ellie Sattler, is a world-renowned scientist and is not sexualized or depicted as a damsel. She is assertive and takes charge, even challenging Hammond's implied sexism with the line, 'Dinosaurs eat man... Woman inherits the Earth!' The female grandchild uses her technical skill to save the group. The male lead, Dr. Grant, is intentionally given a character arc that subverts the traditional action hero by having him learn to be a nurturing, protective paternal figure.

LGBTQ+1/10

The movie contains no centering of alternative sexualities, deconstruction of the nuclear family, or lecturing on gender ideology. The core human relationships are presented within a normative structure. The plot point of the dinosaurs changing sex to reproduce is a scientific concept of genetic instability and chaos theory, not a social or ideological statement on human gender.

Anti-Theism6/10

The line by Dr. Ian Malcolm, 'God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs,' is a direct philosophical assertion that man has supplanted God. The overarching theme of man 'playing God' through genetic engineering and the subsequent catastrophic failure critiques a transcendent moral limit. However, the film also implicitly affirms an objective moral law (don't abuse power, have humility) through its cautionary message.