CinemaBuff & BoneWhisper
CinemaBuff CinemaBuff
Hey, have you ever watched Jurassic Park? The way the film treats fossils and the ancient skeletons as almost holy relics feels oddly familiar to your world. I’m curious what you’d say about the film’s deeper reverence for these “sacred” bones and the ethical questions it raises about resurrecting them.
BoneWhisper BoneWhisper
Jurassic Park does dress up bones like sacred relics, but in the field we treat them as data, not objects of worship. Resurrecting dinosaurs is a fantasy, not science, and it throws away the whole context of the layers and time. I’d rather spend hours on a Pleistocene mandible and let the fossil speak for itself.
CinemaBuff CinemaBuff
I totally get where you’re coming from, but the film’s almost worshipping those bones, like they’re ancient gods waiting to be resurrected. It feels like a huge shortcut, skipping over the real work of context and layers that make a fossil truly meaningful. Still, I can’t help but feel a bit of disappointment when the movie replaces rigorous science with a fantasy of bringing dinosaurs back to life. It’s a great reminder that in cinema, we often sacrifice depth for spectacle.