Godzilla
2014
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Godzilla
2014
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Plot summary
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when an ancient alpha predator arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.
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It had it's moments
Metaphysical Horror
For the first time during all these years since the original ' Godzilla ' of 1954 I realise the first three letters of the title of all of them ' God ' really does have a meaning, and in a dreadful sense it is echoed in the banal Elvis Presley song ' The Devil in disguise. ' Two monsters in this film, both the natural forces of nature, are finally in combat. The direction of this premise is filmed mainly in a dreadful darkness, and the effect is one of metaphysical horror. One possible spoiler I must partly reveal is the fate of the woman acted beautifully by the actor Juliette Binoche. Quentin Tarantino apparently cried watching it; I was appalled at it. How life has little meaning, if anything, when confronted by the darkest side of nature itself. I do not want to give more away but to say that it is one of the most horrific films I have seen, and somewhere in the primal terror of it is Ligeti's ' Requiem ' an apt piece of the limit of music to be used. I commend the director for making these musical forces, and anyone who wants just sensationalist rubbish to avoid this film. If you take its premise seriously it could drive you mad.