We’ve heard about Godzilla before. He’s a giant dinosaur looking like creature who makes landfall and destroys everything in site. With his powerful evolution and constant power ups (fireballs, laser cannons) he has been feared in almost every film about him. This particular movie, “Shin Godzilla”, takes place in Japan with the Japanese government trying to stop Godzilla from destroying Tokyo and the rest of Japan. At first, I was expecting Godzilla to look terrifying, intimidating and powerful. However, the first time Godzilla makes his appearance was not as terrifying, intimidating or powerful as I thought. He just looked like a huge lizard with a funny face (poor cgi maybe) crawling through the streets of Japan. It didn’t seem like he had any special powers and I thought it was going to be a really terrible movie but I should have known that Godzilla will evolve as the film goes on.

Godzilla eventually evolves into a more dinosaur looking creature that can stand and can breathe fire out of his mouth. He looked like the Godzilla I knew but one thing that I found quite funny was how short his arms were. Appearance aside, he looks more intimidating and powerful than ever before. Being able to withstand many attacks from the Japanese, Godzilla just became even angrier and destroyed almost an entire city. Of course, the Japanese were starting to panic as the government and prime minister had to act quickly with decision making and executing the plan. The prime minister seemed quite overwhelmed with the situation but I thought to myself that anyone would be overwhelmed. Sadly, the prime minister and some officials were killed by Godzilla while they were attempting to escape the city.

A team of scientists were thinking of a way to defeat Godzilla while he was asleep. It took them weeks to come up with a plan called the “Deep Freeze” plan. The plan was to insert a chemical mixture that would freeze Godzilla by putting tubes in its mouth. The chemicals would leave Godzilla’s body temperature to drop to extreme levels making it immobile. The plan was nearly a failure since other countries such as the US have agreed with Japan to help them kill the creature meaning the Deep Freeze plan may not be used. However, the acting prime minister (replacement for the original prime minister)  has given permission to the scientists to push through with the plan giving them a chance to freeze Godzilla. I thought to myself, how are they going to freeze him if Godzilla is almost indestructible. I was surprised to see that the Japanese were destroying buildings and trains to attack Godzilla to stabilize him for the chemical tubes. The trains made Godzilla fall and the buildings stopped him from getting up allowing the team to freeze him. Soon enough, Godzilla was frozen solid and Japan has been saved.

It felt like watching an anime with the Japanese language and actors as well as how Godzilla played a factor to how the Japanese would react. I imagined it being an anime episode where they had to defeat a monster. At least that was the vibe that I got while watching the movie. Overall, it was a decent movie. Despite some poor images of a few scenes such as people running from the city and Godzilla’s first image, it told a decent story of Godzilla and Japan.

Schizopolis seemed like a very weird movie right from the start. There was man speaking in front of an audience (which turned out to be an empty auditorium) saying things about the movie and that they have to understand it or else the movie will have to be repeated. From the opening scene to the end of the movie, I never really understood what was the plot of the movie. There were three people however that I thought was the main focus which were Fletcher Munson, Jeoffrey Korchek and Mrs. Munson.

For Fletcher (working for Schwitters’ company), it seemed like he was the typical employee at an office with a demanding boss (that yells his name) which makes Fletcher pretend that he is doing work. Fletcher’s job was to write a speech for Schwitters which he constantly slacks off. At the same time, he has a co-worker named Lester who seemed like the typical laid back and weird co-worker who would talk to Fletcher. There were some points in the movie that I did not understand the topic or the point of their conversation but I felt like they were close friends in the company they work at. Afterwards, he has conversations with his wife in a weird language. Although it is in English, the words they are using have no sense at all which I believe is one of the weirdest scenes in the movie.

For Korchek, he was a dentist that had two patients which one of them makes him fall in love. He sends a letter to the woman but was charged for sexual harassment. One scene that got me really confused was when Mrs. Munson started seeing Dr. Korcheck and he said that he was having an affair with his wife. Initially, I thought Dr. Korcheck and Fletcher were two different people but after seeing that scene, I became really confused throughout the whole movie.

Lastly, for Mrs. Munson, Dr. Korcheck and Fletcher started talking in different languages. I ended up being the most confused I have ever been watching a movie because one scene just seemed “normal” where people were still talking in English then the next thing I knew was Fletcher talking in Japanese and Dr. Korcheck talking in Italian or French (I think). At that point I did not understand what was going on anymore except for the fact that it was the same scenes but from a different point of view. I have to admit that I did not understand the whole point of what the movie was trying to show at that point but I tried understanding it as much as I could. Not to mention the guy with goggles wearing an orange outfit and a man running around naked being chased by two people.

In the end, the man wearing an orange outfit shot Schwitters and was interrogated. I did not understand again what was going on. In the end it was Fletcher reflecting and narrating the events that happened in his life which follows up to the man talking to an empty auditorium. I thought there would be a plot at some point of the movie but I realized in the end that maybe there was no plot at all. Maybe it was just a story being told on 3 different points of view. Overall, it was a very weird experience but not to the point where it was cringy or disgusting.