Re: Kong Review: Jaw-droppingly Brilliant

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Richard W. Travsky (travsky@uwyo.edu) wrote:

<Heh. Consider, Freud and Jung were news items in those days. You've got a
small segment, the natives, representing the conscious mind, and a walled off
segment, the unconscious, filled with monsters - er dinosaurs!>

  The beauty, or horror, of Freudian stereotypes and Jungian archetypes, such
as Kong as "hero" or Anne Darrow as "heroine", is that they can be applied
EVERYWHERE. For example, Freudian kong is really a homosexual monkey who
kidnaps Anne, representative of his id as well as the object of destruction
(she's a woman) who seeks the highest, phallic structure in the sit to mount
while heroic fighter pilots seek to save her. Do we wish to go further (and I
swear,l search hard enough, and every movie, book, etc., can become a Freudian
or Jungian game), or just watch a movie, in which the beginning, while it has
natives and the jungle on a "lost" island, can represent something Jungian, the
rest of the movie doesn't?

  I like what was said before, it's just a movie about a big monkey ... err,
ape ... maybe it's a gorilla? Oh, and there's dinosaurs!

  Cheers,

Jaime A. Headden

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)


                
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