The Many Ways Jurassic Park is a Commentary on Capitalism [Video]

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One of the greatest films of the past two decades (yeah, two. We are all getting older, let’s move on), Jurassic Park has been analyzed through every critical lens there is, most notably Marxist. For the folks at PBS Idea Channel, it’s not just the film’s text that’s involved in capitalist discourse… it’s the existence of the film itself. Trippy.

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