‘Gojia’ is a film that Japanese film about those monsters. These monster is create by nuclear experiment. However, those film is not just an monster destroying building in the city, but it is related to the situation in Japan after the world war. Those disaster cause by nuclear war is a traumatic event for Japanese people. This related to this film, which creation of modern world became threat to the society. Japan trying to hide, but this film shows about destruction and show negative part of modern invention. It is different from monster movie of other countries becuase they didn’t have this experience. We could see lots of skyscraper in this film. Those wide shots make building look smaller than monsters to show how big. Also Those monsters are not able to defeat by ordinary weapon. This shot is also used a lot in other monster film. Some people feel optimistic image of destroying government building, which show people’s disbelief of government.
Youngjin Im
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Appreciate your reading on the importance of the context in monster films. The destruction of buildings are always intentional in monster films.
In your point of view, how does monster film differ from country to country? How is the post-war Japanese monster films special? And how did the scars and fear of WWII manifest in the Godzilla films? Why is monster films in postwar Japan such a popular genre and why are them in TSUITSUI’s point of view optimistic?
You’ve also mentioned the similarity of monster films: skyscrapers, usage of wide-angled shots to indicate the scale of the city in relation to the monster, and usage of advanced weapons. Can you further elaborate on why these elements are the constant elements that run throughout the whole monster film genre?