FIRST TIME WATCHING *Shin Godzilla*

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Synopsis:Shin Godzilla is a 2016 Japanese kaiju film directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, with a screenplay by Anno and special effects by Higuchi.

[HazeKnife]

Yeah you see the problem is thats not shin’s Godzilla’s final form, because shin doesn’t really have a final form and can theoretically keep infinity evolving.

[SebScreen]

RE-UPLOAD because Youtube doesn't love me :(
Favourite part of this film?

[CHOSOJIGOAT]

I’ll explain the final shot
In the end, Godzilla realised that the only thing that could beat him was humans, so he evolved to become like them, that’s why his tail has human on it and his dorsal fin is made of bone. Also technically if he kept evolving he would become the universe and be a literal god.

[Pridam]

Godzilla himself is a victim of the nuclear energy that transformed him. He is in constant pain, he doesn't know why he even exists, he just wants his pain to stop, but it won't stop because he keeps evolving from whatever is effecting him besides the pain. Godzilla's pain will always remain. The last shot of Godzilla in the movie? Yeah he was in the middle of creating his own mini-Godzilla army. Since he evolves according to the attacks that he receives, if Godzilla is going to be attacked by an army, then he will respond by evolving an army to fight back. The reason Godzilla was able to also fire his atomic breath from his tail was because he had grown a second head on his tail


That is the theme of Godzilla in this movie. Just as people were victims of his nuclear radiation, he is also a victim of it. The song and music that plays when Godzilla first used his atomic breath? The song is centered around him and how he feels, definitely should look into the translation

[AbsoluteMennace]

Odds are you've had it all explained by now, on patreon or twitter or w/e. I'll still try to explain the final shot, just in case. All Godzilla movies are built on metaphors, where Godzilla himself is a stand-in for the man made horror of nuclear annihilation. Many of the older films pit him against other metaphoric monsters, such as pollution, cultural decay, runaway technological advancement, and various other things. Every time a lesser monster faces off against Godzilla, the nuclear metaphor kills the shit out of it. Nuclear annihilation is the most dangerous thing humans can potentially do, Godzilla will never lose. That being said since Godzilla is a walking metaphor, he is literally made of the results of nuclear disaster, you see the corpses, that's the final shot. He is made of death.
On a related note, one of the things that Shin is employing in it's metaphor this time is how bureaucracy is Godzilla's new enemy. A bunch of people making slow decisions, spending civilian lives to prevent public humiliation, and allowing a problem to escalate out of control, has already happened to Japan. Namely the Fukushima nuclear disaster which took place in 2011 which is the basis for this movie.

[WolfHreda]

It's not that the Monsterverse movies had a weak Godzilla, it's that Hideaki Anno turned this Godzilla into a fucking nightmare, definitely befitting the 1954 original.

If you want to see his most famous work, the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion has some very similar themes and motifs. If I remember correctly, he even put Evangelion's ending theme in the credits for Shin Godzilla.

[Panik]

I was excited when Godzilla started to light up for his atomic breath, then just sat in silence and horror for the entirety of the following scene. I love Godzilla as a monster, but a few Godzilla movies let you forget what Godzilla is all about… Shin Godzilla absolutely does not

[Imaginationdiva]

I can confirm, cuz I went to watch Shin Godzilla in cinemas with the original Japanese soundtrack w/ subtitles. The original Japanese makes the movie more sombre and serious - I sat in the cinema actually feeling tense

[JMotion]

What I love about this movie's take on Godzilla is that it has so much more to say than just "look how cool the big lizard is".
It's a very realistic story about a collective people fumbling through bureaucracy and red tape to try and take down an unimaginably large threat that it doesn't remotely begin to understand. Japanese culture often favours the collective people over the individual person, and this movie demonstrates how that societal machine is fundamentally broken, resulting in a lot of unnecessary deaths.
Something often lost on a first viewing is that Godzilla mutates in order to overcome an obstacle in its way. When gravity has it ploughing through buildings unable to see where it's going, it mutates itself to stand upright on land. When it's body's radiation becomes too hot to survive without water to stay cool, and the endless barrage of missiles continue to damage it's body, it covers itself with scab-like crust that protects it from damage while also dissipating the heat it generates. At one point it's face get's blown up by missiles, so later it creates organic shielding for it's eyes that protect them from the heat of the missiles, also allowing it to use its atomic breath.
The ending of the movie shows us that the collective human race was capable of successfully stopping Godzilla. And so, as with every other threat, Godzilla begins evolving to protect itself from this threat. And thus, new creatures begin spawning from Godzilla's tail, taking the form of that which it understands to be superior, humans.

[hherpdderp]

"It was showing mercy when it was just walking around"

This is quite a good point.

[jesusramirezromo]

Godzilla pulling out a new power out of nowhere in the 3d act is a tradition in Godzilla movies
He's flown, defied gravity, gotten magnetic powers, and more

[videowatcher]

In my opinion, the design of Shin Godzilla is the best out of all Godzilla designs. And I say that as someone who has been a lifelong Godzilla fan since I was a little kid. The skin looking like cooled molten rock interspersed with cancerous red growths, combined with the snaggletooth grin, beady eyes, and clutching hand grip position all just oozes menace. And then you factor in what it’s capable of. From the atomic breath to being a living nuclear reactor and its uncanny ability to evolve and adapt so rapidly.

[ronniesanders]

Am I the only one who found the Atomic Breath Scene in this film to be utterly depressing? Yeah, its awesome to look at and all. But it's so painful to think about the numerous people that were killed in that attack. Plus, it wasn't Gojira's fault. It was ours.

[TransitOfMarsOfficial]

This has become my favourite Godzilla film, it’s such a unique take on the titan with an almost Lovecraftian horror feel. Great vid dude.

[Ani]

Shin Godzilla is definitely one of the best movies out there for TOHO, considering that it takes on the concept of what if Godzilla was real… And they performed beautifully. In real life people would have to go down the chain of command go through red tape political BS, the works. All in all this is literally how most governments work. In the old movies they barely have to go through all this red tape especially in both the TOHO and Monsterverse movies.

You definitely need to see the older Godzilla movies the ones with and without Godzilla to get the full lore of him including the Hanna-Barbera Godzilla

If you've seen the behind the scenes of this movie it'll tell you that Godzilla was originally supposed to have more forms but they cut it out because they didn't have the budget nor time to make all of that.

As I mentioned about the other forms those little humanoid Godzilla's were supposed to be the next one but they were able to stop it before they became an entire army invading Japan or the world with miniature atomic breath's

[BMAN-ebjk]

Believe it or not, the only reason shin Godzilla does his atomic breath is because he was attacked with stealth bombers. Throughout the move we seen that he is evolving so that one thing that could kill him before can’t kill him the next time around. For example in his second form, he was having trouble breathing on land and could die from blood loss. So he evolved into something that could take on that and could be on land then he begins overheating and realize he has to get back to the water. When he shows back up in his fourth form, he now can self cool. When he was getting attacked by the bombers, he realized it could have killed him so he evolved the atomic breath as a defense. He was able to use that nuclear energy inside him and fire it all out. That’s how he could fire the photon beans from his back and tail.

[thepoeticminecart]

The things on the tail at the end was its next evolution
It observed humans and basically grew the ability to dirpence humanoid monsters from its own hide and scales.

[soybajo-kira]

This Godzilla scares the hell out of me. And this movie is also the most realistic Godzilla movie given the governments reaction

[カイド-rc]

In English translation, the Self-Defense Forces and the government call it "Godzilla", but in Japanese it is called "Giant Unknown Creature" or "Target".

[erickchristensen]

This version of Godzilla really doubled down on the Eldritch Horror design.
The music change when it opened its mouth for that deviating show of power was beautiful, and haunting.