"Jurassic World" (2015) Saturday Monster Movies

Jurassic World imagines a world where the original dream has not only survived, but has expanded into a full-blown corporate empire. The park is open. The dinosaurs are attractions. Everything runs on branding, technology, and market research. It’s not just a theme park anymore. It’s a system. A polished, consumer-ready spectacle, designed to keep people entertained and spending. But underneath the surface, the same rot remains. The dinosaurs are still wild, the humans are still arrogant, and the illusion of control is still just that… an illusion.

This time, the danger comes from a creature invented for the sake of profit. The Indominus Rex is a hybrid, made to be bigger, scarier, and more marketable than anything nature ever produced. It is a product, born not from scientific curiosity but from a boardroom agenda. When it escapes, it exposes the entire system. The chain of command breaks down. People pass responsibility from one department to another. Everyone is “just doing their job.” No one is accountable. The chaos is no longer confined to a secret island or a science lab. It’s on the brochure.

What Jurassic World does so well is show how evil doesn’t always wear a villain’s face. Sometimes it wears a badge, or a lab coat, or a suit. Sometimes it works in marketing. The people in charge aren’t cartoonishly evil. They are just deeply compromised. They hide behind policy. They justify their choices. They put their trust in systems that were never meant to carry moral weight. Theologically, this film exposes how institutional sin works: it distributes guilt, dilutes responsibility, and masks unrighteousness with efficiency. It shows how easily we can use our roles or our routines to excuse doing nothing, or worse, to justify doing wrong.

Yet in the midst of all this, a few characters choose a different path. They break rank. They risk their lives to protect others. They recognize that life is sacred, even when it is dangerous. In that, Jurassic World offers a glimpse of hope. Systems may fail, but individual courage still matters. Moral clarity still matters. The dinosaurs are terrifying, but the real monster is the human ability to look at something sacred and see only profit. The only remedy is to recover a sense of reverence, and to take personal responsibility when the machine asks us to look away.