“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”. The darkest and most serious film of the resurrected lizard’s franchise
“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”, shot by Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona (the author of such films as “El orfanato” and “Lo imposible”). According to the plot of the film, the island, where there was a park just recently, may disappear due to a volcanic eruption. Zoo psychologist Owen returns there to save the dinosaurs. In my opinion, the new “Jurassic World” is the most serious film of the famous franchise, with a clear zoo protective accent.
Of course, this is a continuation of Colin Trevorrow released three years ago by “Jurassic World”, but at the same time - the fifth picture of dinosaurs that were animated by cloning. The cycle was coined and launched by Steven Spielberg (here he is the executive producer) in the early 1990s. His sensational blockbuster was based on Michael Crichton, a bestseller who, in turn, drew inspiration from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, also repeatedly screened by Hollywood.
In other words, all the components of the next “Jurassic World” are studied and known in advance. Children and adults first admire the fossil lizards, resurrected by him for fun, and then run away from them, cursing their own frivolity. Our enthusiasm for the unknown and our fear of it is the basis of the unsinkable franchise. In its latest edition, it seemed, we predicted not only the plot, but also the main participants, in fact, successfully chosen: the worthless zoo psychologist Owen (charming Chris Pratt) and his strict lover Claire (re-released into the stars after a long break Bryce Dallas Howard). Now that the Jurassic World entertainment complex is closed, living on the island dinosaur clones are threatened with extinction, this time because of a volcanic eruption. A pair of reckless heroes are taken to take out the lizards to the mainland. Of course, things are not going according to plan.
Violation of plans, in all possible ways, is the most interesting part of the film. The previous “Jurassic World” was too much like not a movie, but an ideal attraction, a luxurious virtual adventure simulation, where there was a lot of dynamics, but there was almost no meaning of its own. The public was allegedly frightened, but it was not at all scary - just fun; the plot was weathered from the head even before the end of the credits. Another filmmaker, the talented Spaniard Juan Antonio Bayona, was the author of the highly uncomfortable and individual films “El orfanato”, “Lo imposible” and “A Monster Calls”. Despite the fact that the creator of the first “Jurassic World” Trevorrow was co-author of the script, Bayona's branded themes were reflected here as well: abandonment and abandonment, abandoned children, helpless people, the experience of the death of a loved one. Even the visual palette of the painting has changed, becoming darker and darker.
A progressive horror story familiar since the days of “Frankenstein” about how dangerous it is for a person to play God, is brought to its climax here. The old scientist, guilty of creating a damned amusement park, is living the last days in a luxurious neo-Gothic mansion (the influence of the Gothic novel in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is enormous). His cynical stupid followers are entertained by merging the DNA of prehistoric predators with each other, growing everything on the mountain in a test tube of an invincible dinosaur of an unspeakable breed, the indoruptor. Arriving out of nowhere where the villain-merchant - in this role, accustomed to such roles Toby Jones - is going to auction off the dinosaurs saved from the dying island to greedy billionaires from around the world. In addition to that, an unsuspecting orphan girl, a nine-year-old granddaughter of a scientist, who is trained by an experienced governess (favorite of Bayona - Geraldine Chaplin), runs through the empty corridors of the mansion. The child will play a decisive role in the intrigue, as no one guesses.
Owen and Claire, who have infiltrated evil into this world of scientists, are finally turning into zoo defenders who, in disbelief, are trying to save fossil monsters from human cruelty. A distinctly human rights focus on Jurassic World appears for the first time. More precisely, earlier he was allowed to exist as a humanistic nuance to the main intrigue, the leitmotif of which was the salvation of people from raging animals. Bayona actually speaks straightforward text: if one eats a person, that is where the road goes, his life doesn’t deserve a dinosaur claw. Yes, the lizards are terrible, dangerous and ruthless; but in comparison with people, they are pure and innocent. Through the ingenious plot of the plot, the authors make an association between the defenseless child who has become a hostage of adult games, and all these diplomatic schools, triceratops, pterodactyls, and raptors, for whose fate we are experiencing more and more in the course of the action.
Paradoxically, changing the perception of the audience, Bayona leads us to a dual finale - it is incomprehensible to perceive it as a happy conclusion or as a forerunner of a genuine, threatening population of the whole Earth, Apocalypse. One thing is certain, the film will have another sequel.