‘Godzilla: Minus One’
Manager: Takashi Yamazaki
Artists: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Sakura Ando
Year: 2023
Premiere: December 15, 2023
★★★★
Seventy years and thirty dozen films later, the Sagrada Familia of the ‘kaiju’ once again shows that its cinematographic potential – however monumental – has not been exhausted. ‘Godzilla Minus One’ abandons unorthodox approaches to monster mythology in the vein of ‘Shin Godzilla’ (2016) and reveals the full scope of Godzilla’s cinema in a quest for a return to roots that are nothing of the nostalgic. , balances visual spectacle with human emotion and handles the political subtext inherent in the epic more deftly than anyone since the years when the main character was made of latex.
Directed by director Takashi Yamazaki, the stunning action sequences focused on the destruction of planes, trains, and tugboats perfectly capture the overwhelming power Godzilla wields and the terror he causes.largely because almost all of it takes place in broad daylight. And the destruction caused by the monster not only overshadows the human tragedy, but also intensifies it. Set at the end of the Second World War, starring a failed kamikaze pilot in search of redemption, the film clearly reveals to what extent the individual traumas it explores reflect the traumas of a country, and argues that solidarity is a necessary weapon to escape spirituality. We gather the deafening roar of the beast.