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December 11, 2005
King Kong: Indeed it is
In the Observer, Philip French finds the ape is great, but offers up with a lovely vignette with his reservations. Peter Jackson's King Kong, French writes, "rather confuses the complex web of meaning—political, psychological, sexual and moral—that has grown up around Kong over the years, starting with the double-edged appeal he had for Depression audiences as a symbol of the destructive chaos of capitalism and the revenge of the people against the system. I remember emerging from an early-evening screening of King Kong at the National Film Theatre in the Sixties and meeting the distinguished Jungian analyst Anthony Storr, who was going in to see it for the first time. 'You're in for a treat,' I told him. 'It's right up your street.' He grinned broadly, rubbed his hands together, and said: 'You mean real archetypal stuff?' And indeed it is."
Posted by pride at December 11, 2005 09:30 AM
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