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Go Ape
I haven't seen this for a long time - but rented it having read about Peter Jackson's remake. And you know what it was interesting; it was certainly good, very unrelenting, but also brutal and quite moronic on one level; "look a dinosaur - they haven't been around for millions of years, quick shoot it" and I don't think Kong is played for sympathy but you are sympathetic to him almost from the off.
Then you can read into it lots of psycho sexual / racial undertones if you so desire. But at the end of the day after a few minutes you do buy into story that this stop frame animated gorilla is actually 50 foot high and a film made more than 70 years ago does still resonate. |
