I think there is certainly a relationship between destructive/ monstrous and cyberpunk movies. Apart from the discussion on Gojira, Akira and Ghost in the Shell we did during the tutorial, the part that talks about the walking (moving) city definitely interests me. The British architect Ron Herron depicts a Walking city with a huge self-contained mini-city that looked like a combination of giant building cranes, 1950s robots and praying mantis. As such, there are also depiction of an imaginative assumption of train as a miniature of a city, as mentioned “The train is a moving world, it contains all surviving humans- but it is questionably a city because it has no hinterland no trace no interactions with a larger world.” But then I started question, what IF a train IS a city? This leads to reminisce of the movie Snowpiercer where the train is the only thing left within this world and everyone is surviving based on relying that train. The interesting part is the hierarchy social ladder that creates within the compartment, as the last cart is at the most poverty, and the front cart is definitely the richest, this idea symbolises a dystopia, or as the reading mentioned “heterotopia” city that imagined by us. And often within this genre, there’s always this “resistance” or “rebellion” to cater the problem as much as how there’s an “ultra man” or hero/ heroine within monstrous movie. Generally, no matter how dystopian the movie gets, no matter its in GitS or Gojira, the ending are often quite optimistic and brings us hope. These movies are exceptionally intriguing for me and the reading this week is relatively fruitful.