Board Thread:Movie discussion/@comment-26025032-20150622010226/@comment-26025032-20150817043907

Kooshmeister wrote: There is a quote from Paradise Lost which is used as the preface to Frankenstein and I think it sums Indominus up pretty well.

"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man?" (Well, in her case, it'd be "mould me dinosaur.")

As I said above, she had no choice in the matter. She didn't ask to be created and made the way she was. She was engineered by greedy businesspeople who wanted to increase revenue for their park. She was designed to be the way she was. So to me, she's both a monster and a tragedy. And that's the best kind of monster, the kind you're terrified of but also pity.

Indominus is what you get when a child is not loved by its parents. Masrani and Wu in this case. Like Frankenstein's monster, she is shunned by her creator(s). Because she was a freak who ate her sibling and almost tore someone's arm off due to being designed to be extra-vicious, she was locked away in a fortress-like prison, shut away from the world with no contact. And she became angry. And because of her increased intelligence, with that anger came a brutal sadism. She was the deformed mutant kid the Jurassic World family kept locked away in the cellar so to speak.

Looked at in this context, Indominus' escape and rampage across Isla Nublar was the fierce, hateful tantrum of an abused child. Indominus may have had a (mostly) adult body, but her mind, for all its intellect, was the mind of a very angry child. She knew nothing else but frustration and hate. When she is finally dragged underwater by the Mosasaurus, it was a merciful end for her, in my opinion. To be fair a greedy government would have no qualms in doing basicly the same thing, but other than that it rather spot on about I-rex