Humanities in Japan are indeed strong enough, no wonder they can support so many independent writers.
A story about fighting monsters is all about such systematic politics - it really isn't "Godzilla" in the popular sense.
Story is something that most people use as entertainment, and it is a great catharsis. The Japanese are the most uninterested and treat stories as experiments in the humanities .
This kind of thinking, which is quite common in the Japanese literary and art circles, used to be the identification standard for a "quasi-writer", but in modern times, few people know it.
In fact, everyone has seen many similar gameplays, such as the "curse" in horror, and the "sea girl" in porn. It's just that most people only see them as entertainment. In fact, they say "Japanese girls". If this is the case, what you see is the monster Godzilla. People say that it is the Oriental Lion on the other side of the strait that is ravaging or will ravage Tokyo.
The story is really high, but the drama is really bad. Of course, this is also one of the characteristics of island films, the extreme humanistic added value, combined with the narrative interest without any sense of design. Audiences who are new to Japanese movies may not be very comfortable with it, just get used to it.
The movie is already so boring, so let's have fun with the movie review. Because they are all Godzillas, let's start with American Godzilla, which is very simple, 4 groups of comparisons.
1. Narrative mood;
The same Godzilla, the Americans technically take the art, and the narrative takes the entertainment +.
Looking at this film again, compared to the island country's own ACGN design level , it is technically equivalent to no output value. The narrative is even more exaggerated, and the stupid Godzilla is made into a political fable .
Godzilla has made a mirror of the entire Neon Kingdom , from which we can see the inefficient administrative system of the island country's government, the slow and fragile economic machine, the personnel management of Alzheimer's, the discontented public sentiment, and the low-pitched national diplomacy. . Don't take it seriously, it's all self-deprecating. It seems that the Japanese screenwriters union is extremely dissatisfied with the welfare treatment given by the government, that's all.
2. National image - arms race;
It is also crisis public relations. The national image in American Godzilla can be called "American advertising".
An orderly political response, a solid and stable capital reserve, the world's most advanced academic support, and the support of public opinion regardless of one's own health, especially the most important, the muscle power of Buddha blocking Buddha, God blocking God, 360 degree national show off.
It's just about screaming to the whole world, who else? Possess such democratic politics as the US, such solid capital, such profound academics, and such a powerful armament?
In contrast, the Japanese national image shown in this film. Political efficiency is low, the capital market is old, and public sentiment is collapsing, especially the Self-Defense Forces. Compared with the United States, where the F-35, Aegis, etc. are always available, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces are almost equal to the militia, with at most two helicopters. This is a bit too arrogant.
3. Character image;
Take the prime minister in this film as an example, old, timid and timid. Thinking back to the United States, all of them are "studies".
4, the most important - value orientation;
Americans use the most cutting-edge art design to fill in the content of the brain-dead-level story.
Compared with Japanese design technology, they used low-medium special effects, but they were filled with stories that were not only not entertaining, but even sacrificed for drama, but were extremely focused on the core of thinking .
Compared with the careless visualism of the American imperialists, this film shows restraint and introspection as much as possible, trying to avoid the adverse social impact that may be caused by the intuitive visibility of the film media, especially the propaganda of arms.
They may think that, for a former aggressor country, military displays in the film media are not good for society. This has a comic effect in the film narrative that is extremely time-efficient . For example, when several characters are facing each other, they still speak honorifics and pass on layers.
5. Summary;
Godzilla is a Japanese imaginary enemy designed by the film, which can be China or something else. Importantly, the film sets Godzilla as a political exploit and a "reboot mechanism" for Japan. It's a simple sociological model that few movie stories use.
Especially for the Godzilla theme, American producers think that the investment is so large, so they must rely on entertainment to make money back, even if they can't make money, they will be the state investing money in advertising, at least it can guarantee hundreds of millions of tourists every year. Flow to America, looking up to the White House and the Pentagon.
On the contrary, Japanese producers not only don't want to make money, they don't even want the image of Japan. Japan does not need to be smeared by the enemy, so it will blacken itself first.
First, within the movie, how can such a roundabout movie make money in the movie theater? If such films can make money, then the Japanese film market is really impressive.
Second, apart from movies, as one of the world's top exporters of value, Japan has always felt that "this country needs the sympathy and funds of the international community" and that "Japan needs to restart". Ironically, the ZF PR on the other side can't wait to hold a banner every day, shouting "Long Live Socialism" and "China is the best".
The above ironically listed 4 groups of American and Japanese Godzilla comparisons. In fact, the most interesting comparison occurred within Japan, especially the part of the national image. For example, the Self-Defense Forces, --- is really a great irony. Besides the US imperialists, who has more island nations than aircraft carriers? Another example is management philosophy. How many people went to Japan to learn management, but the Japanese themselves regarded it as garbage. It is a nation that treats sorrow as food.
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