The Lovable Monster
August 26, 2019
Predator monsters as ‘lovable’ pets
ELIZABETH A. LOZOWSKI reviews the 2018 movie Jurrassic World: Fallen Kingdom:
The film delves deeper into the Revolution than its obsession with feminism and animal rights: It borders on the diabolical by encouraging affection for monsters.
There has been a tendency in recent years to present monsters as normal creatures, making them seem misunderstood by men and friendly toward them: e.g.How to Train Your Dragon, Maleficent, Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla, to name a few films.
It is a perversion of the sense of good and evil that destroys the moral conscience of children and adults alike. It trains the mind to love what is evil and to hate what is good and beautiful. Jurassic World does this in a sentimental and strange way. The viewer is coached to sympathize with the dinosaurs, even the most vicious ones. The characters on screen weep when a dinosaur is hurt or injured, but shed no tears when a human is killed by a dinosaur.
