GODZILLA
Jerome Cohen who is an English professor as well as the director of both the Medieval and Early modern education in the university of George Washington. In the ‘monster Culture of the seven theses he describes how the monster is born representing the personification of a time, the feeling and the locality. He also explains that the monsters always return and Godzilla is a similar personification that represents a definite cultural moment that is, the nuclear devastation of the Second World War two in Japan and how it remains significant and returns in dozens of films due to the ongoing threat of nuclear disaster through warfare, terrorism and nuclear accidents.
Godzilla continues to be relevant due to the nuclear war threat. The coming up of the Godzilla was initiated by the continuing second world war two which lead Japan to lose a lot of properties as well as death and demoralization that occurred as a result of their failure to use the atomic weapons during the war (Brothers & Peter 51). This inspired the Toho studio where the producer Tomoyuki Tanaka initiated a singular Japanese film that represented the exceptional production of a film in the Japanese state history. Godzilla film therefore basically dealt with the psychological come back of the people as they were struggling to rebuild their towns, way of life and recovering their lives which were in jeopardy by the radioactive fight. This film is in fact plotted against the bombing as the film clearly outlines the greater negative consequences that did befall Japan (Brothers & Peter 51). Though the film producer is a calm and decent man who expresses the bad effects of the American nuclear attacks but his way has greatly communicated to many though the Americans are yet to accept the film as in accepting it would clearly show that they are guilty of their acts. However the Americans believe that they use nuclear to take away evil while Japan greatly opposes their idea.
Godzilla therefore as used in the past to help the Japanese to reform back their lives from the nuclear effects is the same way it is used today to even at wider perspective discourage on the use of these nuclear weapons (Brothers & Peter 51). This film is an effective re-formation of the Japanese armed forces and national familiarity throughout the absolute months of the Second World War. This is represented in the Godzilla as Honda is insisted that “the monster’s roar sounds like an air-raid siren while its footsteps should sound like exploding bombs” (Brothers & Peter 51). This means that the release of the nuclear is a silent event however the product of the nuclear is total destruction so big that it cannot be ignored.
Threat of nuclear remains in the various states and that’s why the Godzilla is still relevant even up to date. In Russia for instanced the relation between the Russians and the United States are still as bad as it was in the cold conflict there earlier. Today they are using nuclear threats on their neighbors especially the United States and they have gone a step further into inventing new nuclear weapons (Perry 23). China on the other hand has also created more of nuclear weapons as they are experiencing growth in the military confrontations. Northern Korea as well is involved in creating a missiles and nuclear arsenals to engage in extreme war. Pakistan and India in their recent wars they have been utilizing nuclear weapons in their wars. Godzilla is relevant due to the possibility of nuclear terrorism. Islamic States of Iraq and Syria has stated up terror groups of terrorism with an improved use of terror attacks. Any access to the nuclear weapons by the ISIS would result to an aggravated terror as well as nuclear attacks (Perry 254).
The Godzilla is relevant due to the continuing likelihood of nuclear accidents. However one of the cause of the Fukushima accident cannot be directly be blamed on the humans but rather on other factors such as the earthquake that resulted in the occurrence of the tsunami (Perrow, Charles 48). The ignorance that the Fukushima people posed when regulatory measures were imposed on them might have attributed to the loss but the core reason of the Fukushima accident was as a result of the climate change that caused the tsunami.
References
Brothers, Peter H. "Japan's Nuclear Nightmare: How The Bomb Became A Beast Called Godzilla." Cineaste 36.3 (2011): 36-40. Academic Search Premier. Web. 23 May 2016.
Perrow, Charles. "Fukushima And The Inevitability Of Accidents." Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists 67.6 (2011): 44-52. Academic Search Premier. Web. 23 May 2016.
Perry, William J., Ashton B. Carter, and Michael M. May. "After the Bomb." New York Times 12 June 2007: A23. Academic Search Premier. Web. 23 May 2016.
Perry, William. "The Road Less Traveled." Peace Review 25.2 (2013): 247-256. Academic Search Premier. Web. 23 May 2016.
