If you love video games and you haven’t seen King of Kong yet, you’re doing your entire counterculture a disservice.  Actually, I think that narrows the field a bit too much.  I should say, if you have any appreciation for the human condition whatsoever, you should see this film.

King of Kong epitomizes the everyday battle between good and evil.  The hero wears white t-shirts and cries, the villain wears black button ups and works at a barbecue sauce factory, and their fates are bound by an outdated, pixelated, barrel-throwing monkey who can bring grown men to their knees.  This is the kind of stuff you can’t make up, the kind of crucible writers hunger for when creating a story.  It’s honestly the best thesis on cowardice I’ve ever seen.

I do find it interesting that we live in a time where grown men sneak into the garage, not to get drunk, not to get high or look at pornography, or any of the other self-respecting vices a person can have, but to plug in to some serious plumber on ape action where the apex of reward is a a seven digit number on a flashing three-color screen.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

-Christian

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