This term took the name from an accident that took place in Sweden’s capital in 1973.
On August 23, two men walked into a bank with the intent to rob it. When notification of the burglary reached the police, the robbers took the hostages (three women and one man) and detained them for six days. At the same time, when the rescue team arrived, the hostages did not want to cooperate with them at all. They defended the kidnappers and accused the police. Psychology finds Stockholm syndrome to be a mechanism of survival a fight for life. It comes out in extremely traumatic situations, like in the face of kidnapping, imprisonment, sexual abuse, being taken as a hostage, a prisoner of war, or member of a sect. It also may happen in romantic (or sexual) relationships founded on domination. The consequences of this syndrome may appear after a long time, after the end of a crisis. Stockholm syndrome has been processed in many areas, including movies. The most epic realization of the syndrome was displayed in the tale of a giant ape from Skull Island – which isn’t strange knowing that this particular iteration was directed by Peter Jackson.
The action takes place in New York during the 1930s, during the Great Depression.įilmmaker Carl Denham (Jack Black) wants to direct his dreamed-of adventure movie, and with his crew, including the unemployed actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) and traveler Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody), he begins his journey on the SS Venture toward the mysterious Skull Island. On the spot they find out that on the island, primitive tribes live and pay their tributes to a gigantic gorilla. Ann is the next victim who is abducted, and the crew embarks on a rescue mission, only to find that Skull Island is trapped in time, and is inhabited by dinosaurs. Meanwhile, Ann and King Kong form a relationship, which in times develops into Stockholm syndrome.
Watts’ character starts to develop sympathy and understanding for her extraordinary captor she tries to humanize him and read his intentions. It might also be said that this relationship is a pop cultural variation of the mythological love between the beauty and the beast a love loaded with insecurity, a fear of abuse, and the most humane – a fear of the unknown.
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