#What is king kong movie
The movie producer escapes death to become the talk of the town, only to be ruined on his big night. He then manipulates everyone else’s hopes and ideals to help him accomplish this, and they follow him into the quicksand: “You’ll be a star!,” “You’ll be known as the greatest trapper in the world!, “We’re doing it for his wife and kids!” Even Kong’s dream is to have the girl and sit on a mountain looking at the sunset.
#What is king kong professional
The movie producer believes the redemption of his professional reputation lies in the jungle.
“Beware following your dreams!” I just watched the 2005 remake again tonight, and I feel like that’s what it was saying. Read more about TheGodGuy, his books and his ideas at He has been a student of the ideas of both Emanuel Swedenborg and George I. His most recent book, "Swedenborg & Gurdjieff: The Missing Links" is an edgy collection of anti-intuitive essays for personal transformation that challenges and inspires. He is a member of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (C.T.N.S.) and the Swedenborg Scientific Association (S.S.A.).Īward-winning author of "Sermon From the Compost Pile: Seven Steps Toward Creating An Inner Garden" and "Proving God," which fulfills a continuing vision that God’s fingerprints of love can be found everywhere in the manifest universe. Sylvia attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and received his Master of Theological Studies at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA and a Certificate of Swedenborgian Studies from the Swedenborgian House of Studies. I believe Swedenborg would have enjoyed King Kong, and used it to highlight many of the points he made in his theological writings! But the “beast” is killed by the highest ideas of the fabricated human intellect (airplanes) because the modern world doesn’t want to deal with reality or its true responsibility of addressing its inner ugliness. This conflict plays out in the ultimate setting of King Kong climbing to the top of the Empire State Building-the pinnacle of modern, manufactured knowledge.
This neglect of cosmic responsibility brings the fabricated human intellect into conflict with real human feelings (which represent the reality of our inner world and our true being). This conjunction is doomed to failure because the knowledge and progress of the modern intellect is artificial and therefore does not reach or affect the human heart in any spiritually helpful way. That King Kong becomes attracted to a female of the human race symbolizes an intention of this improperly developed world of human emotions to conjoin with the more intellectual world of knowledge. King Kong represents what happens in a modern society that neglects the importance of developing one’s emotional world properly. Removed from this development it has grown into something immensely savage and primitive (which is symbolized by living among dinosaurs). King Kong symbolizes a gigantic part of the human psyche, which has failed to take part of the current trajectory of human development. The human intellect, represented by the exploratory party and expedition, believes it will discover something important for the modern world to see. The island they are seeking represents a forgotten, but important part of the human psyche. Traveling by ocean means that to get to this desolate island one must go to the far boundaries of one’s memory. A far off island represents something obscure in the human psyche. Symbolically speaking, New York City represents the modern, or western intellect. An expedition is formed to seek out something unusual on a far off island. So let’s break down some of the elements in this famous movie and see if we can translate them into their spiritual analogies (correspondences).įirst of all, the movie starts off in a center of modern civilization-New York City. Movies like King Kong are a result of this temporary contact, which produces a profound symbolic representation of humankind’s spiritual predicament.
This cosmic knowledge is a function of a higher level of the human mind that is trying to make contact with our everyday consciousness. Now I think I want to go after something larger-King Kong!Īccording to scientist/theologian Emanuel Swedenborg, the entire human race has a connate knowledge of objective truth. In previous posts I offered interpretations of the symbolism in horror movies, like vampires and werewolves, etc. As in all genuine or universal forms of symbolism, what is always being expressed is some spiritual condition of the human race.