Most foreign movie buffs know Verginie as the writer and director of the controversial and explicit Baise-Moi, a semi-biographic feature so sexually frank that the two main characters had to be played by seasoned porn actors because no mainstream actors would touch the script. The basic plot consists of two lower-class French girls who, after being group raped, go on a killing spree to avenege their assaults. However, they don't just take revenge on the offenders, but almost every male they come across on their blood-soaked, hyper-sexual journey. Many critics of Baise-Moi saw this plot as sensationalist and/or militantly feminist. Some see the message of the movies as "We were brutally assaulted by two men, therefore, all men our complicit." King Kong Theory is Virginie's attempt to calmly answer to these accusations and to give a clearer, almost manifesto-like, account for what she believes and how she came to hold these beliefs. Like her movie, she is brutally frank, but she is also collectively calm in the assertion of her ideas; something that is more easily communicated with the written word then the silver screen.
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