Shin Godzilla

The Godzilla franchise has toyed with the procedural, ensemble approach to a story of a giant monster stomping on Japan off and on since the beginning. However, I think Shin Godzilla is the purest form of it. If you were to force it into a mold of a singular main character, it’s possible, but this is really the story of a modern nation facing an existential threat. If it reminds me of anything, it’s Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion which came out five years earlier. I’d be surprised if Hideaki ...