GOJIRA REVIEW
"Godzilla was baptized in the fire of the H-Bomb and survived." Gojira has always been a difficult film of me to review. It isn't particularly enjoyable to sit through, it is overly dark (not tonally but ascetically), and it isn't a great origin story for what the series will become. It is however a very important film both for Japanese culture and the Godzilla franchise itself. Godzilla was created almost as a way of coping with what happened less than a decade before with the Unites States bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At one point a woman on a trolley says she can't believe this is happening again as she barely made it out of Nagasaki. This is a cautionary tale to the Japanese people, as their own H-Bomb testing is what supposedly led to the waking up and mutation of Godzilla. They never directly mention the United States and even go so far as to say that placing blame over the creation of Godzilla will only upset foreign diplomac
