The tutorial and the reading has explained how films portray how Tokyo has fallen into catastrophic events, destructing the city and reviving through reconstruction. The monster in movies symbolizes an event with the event’s characteristics like plants, insect and pathogens, to exaggerate the seriousness and scale of the event. Even though these are disastrous monsters (events) have destroyed the whole city, it gives itself many chances to rebuild a complete appearance for the whole Tokyo, transitioning architecture styles after periods of time, giving rise to a perverse nostalgia to citizens, allowing them to remember to seek for hope in the redeveloping futuristic country. Moreover, the optimistic reconstruction in the film also exaggerates the scenes like accelerating the reconstruction rate, in order to give a sense of comfort to the Toky audiences.
What do you understand by “a perverse nostalgia”? What do you mean by “transitioning architectural styles”? Interesting observation about the speed of reconstruction in the film.