Godzilla Minus One: Boat chase
Godzilla’s re-emergence in Minus One comes after we have spent a good chunk of the early acts of the film watching protagonist Koichi reckon with the trauma of both what he saw that night on Odo Island and the state of Tokyo in the wake of the war’s end. It makes the beast’s re-emergence, chasing down the fishing boat Koichi and his fellow colleagues are using to decommission deep sea mines, filled with even more tension than any good monster chase should have in the first place: it makes it feel like Godzilla isn’t just an unstoppable force of nature, but one intent on ruining the life of this one traumatized man in particular.
