Welfare
Godzilla is a fictional prehistoric monster awakened and mutated by nuclear radiation that first appeared in the mid-1950s, nearly 70 years ago, at the height of Cold War paranoia. Godzilla represented the fear of a nuclear war, a towering unfamiliar monster that threatened to destroy entire cities. Much like the disaster movies we see today, Godzilla held a mirror up to society and despite the amount of time that has passed, this cinematic representation of mutation and animal testing has endured. Earlier this year a Japanese film called Mary & The Witch’s Flower was released which depicts an alternate universe where animals are kept in cages and experimented on by two crazed magicians with disastrous results. Remove the fantasy element from Mary & the Witch’s Flower and you’re left with an unsettling reflection of the modern world.