IMDb plot summary: Japan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster.
Directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi. Starring Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, and Satomi Ishihara.
Shin Godzilla is a Godzilla movie centered around the endless bureaucracy needed to address a national danger like Godzilla. Not the exciting military decisions being made -- we've had plenty of those stories -- but the exhausting process of having to run your every decision by five other committees, who in turn need to consult with three other interest groups, before you can make a tiny change that may or may not affect anyone. So much of this movie is a bunch of men in suits sitting on comfy couches as they wait for information to come in that will let them act. That could be tedious, but this film manages to make it tense. Add to all that the few moments when we *do* in fact get to see our monster: the character design on this thing is entirely terrifying. Creative and very uncanny valley in a way that I find chilling. It's overall a fascinating take on the story that works for me on a lot of levels, even though I'm not necessarily drawn into the Godzilla mythos on a whole. But this one is well done and held my attention.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Shin Godzilla > Love Exposure
Shin Godzilla > Anna Karenina
Shin Godzilla < Network
Shin Godzilla < Onward
Shin Godzilla < Destroy All Neighbors
Shin Godzilla < The Blue Angel
Shin Godzilla < Shallow Grave
Shin Godzilla < Fruitvale Station
Shin Godzilla > My Life as a Dog
Shin Godzilla < Autumn Sonata
Shin Godzilla > Kill Bill Vol. 2
Shin Godzilla > Fresh (2022)
Final spot: #981 out of 3968, or 75%.
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