Much has been written about the biggest film outside of Star Wars at the box office this year, Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World. Currently on its way to becoming the biggest disc release of the year as well, the movie has been loved, loathed, pulled apart, put back together and a whole lot more since it first hit cinemas over the summer. For when the necessary dinosaurs have been defeated, and it becomes clear that human beings will, on the whole, survive, we get a simple moment between Jake Johnson’s Lowery, and Lauren Lupkus’ Vivian. The pair have been sat in the control room for the duration of the movie, staring at increasingly fraught looking computer graphics, that seem to suggest that elsewhere in Jurassic World, there is peril. Only not here. I saw Jurassic World twice in cinemas, and on both occasions, what happened next brought the house down. “Someone has to stay behind”, Lowery says, as he leans in for his expected kiss with Vivian. A simple, but appreciated, subversion of the expected norms of the disaster movie. And one I think is worth saluting. I hope we see more of Vivian in the sequel. As things stand, though, that one’s my favourite scene in the film. Arguing about the rest of Jurassic World may now recommence.
