[In Jurassic World,] dinosaurs are set loose in a theme park, and the visitors must fend for their lives against prehistoric beasts. The question on all our lips should be, How could they let this happen again? In that spirit, we should also ask, How could we let this movie happen again? More broadly, why do we, the audience of contemporary Hollywood, find ourselves confronted with the same movies being made over and over again, fending for our lives against these hungry, postmodern beasts?
Philip Conklin
July 1, 2015