
What is Godzilla doing in this Mothra movie?
In the continued effort to take Godzilla seriously, Takao Okawara and Kazuki Omori move Godzilla from being a metaphor for nuclear power and throw him into an environmentalist tale of how Japan’s modernization is killing Gaia. That’s a marked contrast from the previous film where Japan was on the guide path to world domination in the 21st century. We also have the returning problem of needing humans to explain things but being unable to actuall...
Published on May 01, 2025 04:48