Cinta Dua Species

We went to see King Kong the movie last nite.

My nephews and nieces, Aisyah, Iffa, Amir, Aimi, Nina, Aina, Haniff and Bella ranging from 2.5 to 12 years, as well as my two sisters, Aha and Ida voted to see it. I was not so keen nor have ever watched a Kong movie .. until last nite. We occupied the whole row :)

Well the kids didn't quite know what they are getting, betting on it to be an action-packed thriller with a big ape as the hero. Well it is, with extras in the form of some mean T-Rexes, clumsy Sauropods and digusting-looking worm-like sucking creatures from the swamp, humongous jurassic bats, mosquitoes, scorpions and bugs and what have you - Jackson certainly worked hard to cater to all the phobias. And yes..we figured Jackson's fantasy must have been to marry King Kong with Jurassic Park, with the exotic locale of the Malay-Polynesian islands. The natives bears some resemblance to the tribal natives of the New Guineas (but the Papuans/Guineans and Irian Jaya are some of the nicest and most innocent folks I know). The tribal rituals potrayed in the movie is an over-active imagination of Jackson's or his re-enactment of the Hindu Thaipusam kavadi or something..

Lonely Kong fell hard for the lovely and the very blond Ms Ann Darrow.

This love affair between these two species unfortunately are not to be left alone either by those darn dinosaurs in the smoky tropical Skull Island nor the pesky theatre-viewing public and military in cold wintry New York .. where Kong met his demise (beauty killed the beast? or perhaps not yet.. there could after all be a sequel to Jackson's Kong) falling on his back from the Empire State Building. There's also another twist where poor John Driscoll had to compete for Ms. Darrow's attention with an ape of all thing. But everyone agreed hands down after all those troubles he had to go thru with the dinos and the army tanks and choppers, Kong deserved the right for Ms. Darrow's affections, albeit we feel that he should never have fallen in love with the barbie doll in the first place. (Perhaps the message here was it is better to love and lost than never to love at all..hmm..)

The kids especially the boys upon reviewing all three movies, Harry Potter, Narnia and King Kong decisively voted for Narnia as their favorite, while the adults who still have a lot of kids in them (like me :)enjoyed all three and will watch them twice. But most of all we were so entertained by the kids'reaction when watching these movies..particularly King Kong where the "Oh-my-God-it's a love-story! EUGHH!" reactions on their faces were so very precious. Err.. while most were shedding tears over Kong's predicament, my sisters and I can't helped but laughed our heads off watching the kids' "tipah tertipu" faces.

Upon reflection if true love can be found between two species across the continents and against all odds, there is still hope in finding my soulmate on this earth after all :) Lets hope he is not some sort of err.. primate! arghh..