Ever seen the original "Godzilla"? Did you know the monster flick is a powerful metaphor for nuclear power? It's an unflinchingly bleak and deceptively powerful film about coping with and taking responsibility for a man-made tragedy. Specifically, nuclear tragedies.
Godzilla was made in the early-to-mid-1950s. The nuclear bombs the American armed forces dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki left an open wound to the Japanese society. But it was an incident that occurred six years later, in 1954, when Americans accidentally tested an hydrogen bomb too close to a Japanese fishing vessel, that inspired Godzilla.
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