![]() Shots of cars and yachts piling up as Godzilla makes his way out of the coast and into the city resembles the news footage from the aftermath of the tsunami, making this iteration of the king of monsters a personified natural disaster. Where the original Godzilla was intended as a metaphor for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Shin Godzilla is a clear and direct response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and how the government's too little, too late response due to abysmal crisis management failed to prevent the deaths of over 15,000 people. ![]() Anno and Higuchi give us arguably the most human-focused Godzilla film since 1954, as the titular monster takes a backseat to a political satire about the ineptitude of bureaucratic red tape. What feels instantly different is how plain incompetent the humans' response to Godzilla is. The monster emerges from the ocean, starts terrorizing Tokyo, and both scientists and the military are left dumbfounded as to how to handle this situation. ![]() ![]() Right off the bat, Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno and his co-director and VFX guru Shinji Higuchi play on audiences’ familiarity with Godzilla by recreating the basic plot of the original film. ![]()
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