A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
This movie contains 38 potentially triggering events.
The two kids' parents do not appear on screen. However, the children (particularly Lex) are shown to be sensitive to the possibility of being abandoned by the adults supervising them, and it can be inferred that this is a reflection of their parents' behavior (it's mentioned that their parents recently divorced).
Sort of, but not in the traditional sense. One of the many, many, many problems with Jurassic Park is that the staff are uncaring and misunderstand the dino's behaviors, including their needs ("T-Rex doesn't want to be fed. He wants to hunt. You can't just suppress 65 million years of gut instinct."). This is a contributing factor to the mass mayhem that ensues. Probably more of an animal abuse trigger if anything, but still there subtextually.
I would say Hammond gaslights everyone, both his employees and the guests, about the overall safety of the park. He dismisses their concerns and belittles them about it. This happens multiple times throughout the film. Especially bad/typical workplace gaslighting towards Nedry about his being overworked and under compensated.
I mean, there is no child abuse in the usual sense, but the two kids in the movie are brutalized and terrorized throughout the whole movie with no reprieve.
A live cow is lowered into the velociraptor paddock where it is brutally killed by the raptors. A live goat is chained to a pole in the Tyrannosaurus rex enclosure where it’s left to be eventually be killed by the T-rex.
Yes. When two characters are trying to get away from a dinosaur, one has her arms around the others neck and there’s a few moments where he’s choking/struggling to breathe.
There's barely any blood or gore period, a goat's severed leg is part of a jumpscare, a Gallimimus gets decapitated, and a severed arm is shown, none are excessive.
One part of the famous T-rex scene is Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum's character) firing up a flare, running out of the car, and trying to lead the T-rex away from the kids by getting the dinosaur to focus on him. While he is injured by falling debris, it's later revealed he survived.
The beginning sequence opens with a man being attacked by a velociraptor. The attack isn’t shown but you can hear it. There are similar scenes throughout the movie.
After the events of this film, most characters that survived come out with PTSD, proven by the significant change of character in Ian Malcom in the Lost World (JP 2)
A common point of contention is how San Jose, Costa Rica is portrayed in one scene (the memetic 'We got Dodgson here!' one). The movie depicts it as a smaller stereotypical oceanside location with chickens cawing in the background when in actuality it's pretty large, metropolitan, and landlocked.
Malcolm makes a comment that he refuses to believe that Dr. Sattler isn't "familiar with the concept of attraction" which is a pretty clear pass at her.
Abortion never comes up, but there might be a potential related trigger. Part of Alan's character arc is that he dislikes children and doesn't want to become a father, which is demonstrated early on. However, he ends up becoming the father figure of Hammond's two grandchildren, with the implication that he's softened his view on children by the end (he does not become a father in later installments, but he does bond with Ellie's son with another man as well as other children). While not as focused on thematically to the same extent as Jurassic World, it may still be triggering.
More bittersweet, in that the park is abandoned, people have died, and Hammond has ended his dream of having a dinosaur theme park. However, people manage to escape, and the last few scenes have a hopeful undertone.
I guess most people were in the bathroom or getting popcorn and missed the opening scene where there are a lot of Jurassic Park employees holding rifles and tazors. The tazors are seen being stuck through cage bars and fired. A character yells "Shoot her!" and multiple gunshots are heard.
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