This was the where week we critically analysed our initial blog posts as a group and were able to bounce ideas off each other. It was clear that we each had different interests and wrote about what stood out most to us. Some of us wrote about the certain film techniques used whilst some wrote about the subtitle/language connection and it was an interesting process of comparing our views of the film that sparked ideas for further research.
Personally music is often a point of interest, but for this film I was really drawn towards the nuclear warfare setting and how they represented Godzilla as a symbol of nuclear destruction. I thought about how events of the second world war period may have influenced the film. The impressions I had made me think about what attitudes the Japanese public may have had towards the H-bomb, and whether or not they resented the U.S. military for…
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