I usually do not feel like writing about hollywood movies such as Spiderman, or King Kong for that matter; let alone write raving reviews on them! But ahem, today I will make an exception. For King Kong. No I did not fall in love with the giant beast. And no, I found the part with the giant animated dinosours, insects and what not totally lacking in mystery, no intelligent design there as far as I could see, only huge parts of teeth, gaping jaws as big as a garage entrance...So, given all this, I must say I was surprized by how delightfully Feminine Mystique the movie was! I was nagged at least several times during the movie by a feeling that the script had been written by a critical theorist - the kind I dont usually see in movies, and imagine my surprize to find it in, of all places, King Kong; and it wasn't even subtle. The beautiful woman who was initially and deliberately portrayet as helpless, jobless and optionless (I had resigned to the fact that I would watch something of the type of Spiderman, so it did not bug me that she would be the heroine to play the mindless happy victim, see, it was a late night and I had nothing to do) is transformed within half an hour into something I had not expected from this movie - a funny, intelligent, self-confident, and VERY powerful woman. More powerful, in fact than the gorilla, which, while male and giant and strong, turns out to be the weakest character in the movie. And the society is portrayed as this unthinking, cheap, cruel place which makes you want to go back to the horrifying, terrible Skull Island, a piece of undiscovered land, full of the most horrifying natives I have seen, they looked like dead people but were alive. This is where the first half of the movie takes place, and it is interesting how both worlds at the end appear so similar, in fact, Skull Island might even be better - with the sunsets, ocean view, uncomplicated and pretenseless cruelty, assuming we are not going to meet the dead looking living skull tribe. Beauty and strenght are interesting concepts, and this movie played them out beautifully.