8 Movies to Know Me

Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences and thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. Jurassic Park Dinosaurs are cool. The original released not long before I was born and has always been connected with my parents who went to see it at the time. They shared it with me when I was slightly more appropriately aged. I was terrified of the scene where the T-Rex is chasing down the jeep. I would leave the room for a couple of minutes every time I watched the movie and then come back to enjoy the rest. In the years since my love for the movie has only grown. Nowadays I'm blown away by the lunch scene where they are essentially laying out the thesis for the movie. I just think it's such incredible characterisation. It's crazy that a movie about rampaging dinosaurs has such well-defined and interesting human characters. My favourite memory of the film was when I was in secondary school, and my mother pulled me out…