Good morning everybody.

Hope you're doing well, Stophane, from Fridame, so I went to go and see the new Godzilla movie.

And it was a late night showing and there was a sort of disturbing number of young children there, but that's perhaps a topic for another time.

So I had some thoughts on it because when a monster movie or a monster scenario Japan plus radiation plus war plus

Godzilla has sort of fused together in the public imagination to create a very

long lasting theme, it's well worth examining.

And I think that there is a lot worth examining in this movie.

There's spoilers here and so on, so just be aware of all of that, but this is sort of what went down.

So a brief plot, main guy is flying from a kamikaze mission he's flying back he claims

there's something wrong with this plane they can't find anything wrong with his

plane and then Godzilla attacks the island where he landed his plane and he's supposed to shoot Godzilla from his plane, which is on the ground ground but he doesn't do it.

Godzilla kills everyone except two people and then it's interesting because it sort of

starts off with a kamikaze question as the mechanic says like okay

like I understand we need more men like you what's the point of killing yourself

when we're gonna lose the war anyway like what's the purpose of killing yourself when we're gonna lose the war anyway. Like what's the purpose of killing yourself when we're going to lose the war anyway?

Honor, obedience, duty, obligation, loyalty to state commandments versus biological survival. There's no point self-sacrificing if we're going to lose the war anyway, all that kind of stuff, right?

So that all makes good sense to me.

Interesting debate.

And then, it's like these are two sort of weird movies jammed together.

One is a fairly sensitive study of post-traumatic stress disorder and guilt,

survivors guilt and self lacerations for cowardice, combined with a strange kind of sexual and romantic

impotence, which we'll sort of get to.

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