Unsuccessful "defeatism" narratives

I recently read Richard Yates and fell in love with the "defeatism" narrative once again. Remember Kafka said: "Balzac's walking stick has a maxim: 'I smash all obstacles.' And for me, it is all obstacles that smash me." Pull", I wore 3D glasses for 2 hours and got a little dizzy. Leaving aside the film's "protagonist" Godzilla, the film focuses on the old story of a disaster movie, that is, how ordinary people escaped from a disaster. But unlike the ideology of personal heroism in general blockbusters, the film's protagonist—a bomb disposal expert in the U.S. military—has nothing to cry about: he has been escaping the memory of the disaster that killed his mother 15 years ago; His expertise may have contributed to the development of the plot in some parts of the film, but it was always useless - whenever it was about to work, the monsters came to interrupt him; finally he and his Both his wife and son were saved, but the "savior" was not him, but Godzilla. This is a pale, inactive protagonist. The reason why he avoided the fate of failure and finally got a happy ending, except for Godzilla, can only be attributed to the aura of the protagonist that the film gave him.

The ideology of the film shifts from individual heroism to the powerlessness of man in the face of nature, and even that is not just "nature". The battle between Godzilla and Muto can be seen as a battle of the gods for humans. Of course, man cannot escape the fate of failure before the gods. It is a pity that the film did not develop this proposition well: although in a state of insignificance and powerlessness, human actions are still somewhat positive (this meaning is not necessarily reflected in the results). Comparing "Godzilla" and "Transformers", they are also human beings who struggled in "War of the Gods". From Transformation I to Transformation III, at least we have seen the growth of the protagonist. This is the brilliance of human nature. But in "Godzilla", in addition to sensationalism, it is sensational, flat sensational. The defeatist narrative has been diluted by the blessing of a good god (Godzilla), which is equivalent to saying nothing and leaving no impression. Moreover, this pale story also takes up the playing time of the real protagonist, Godzilla.

Finally, as a digression, this Godzilla who saves mankind is quite cute in image, especially when it opens its mouth and roars, its face is mixed with some characteristics of cats, dogs and bears, and it is full of cuteness.

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