Jurassic Park was a science fiction film that broke box office records. It was not surprising, therefore, that a sequel was produced: The Lost World.
The technology of the films is staggering. It is difficult to look at the film and believe that the dinosaurs are not real, just super-imposed computer graphics. To the reviewer, this was the pleasurable part of the films! The Lost World is really a rerun of Jurassic Park with a different storyline. The violence is still there. The characters are essentially the same. The dinosaurs are ones that survived the trauma of the first film by being raised in seclusion on another uninhabited island, not yet invaded by human beings.
Michael Crichton, the author of the books, is apparently a New Age follower and his books are, to quote Dennis McCallum (The death of truth, Bethany House Publishers, 1996), 'a powerful polemic against the arrogance of human technology, pretended truth claims and so-called progress at the expense of nature'. This is not to dismiss his message as wholly irrelevant. An evolutionary scenario is assumed in the film, including the development of birds from dinosaurs, though recent scientific research has increased doubts about this claim.
