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🧊 Icebreaker — Favourite Books, Films & Series
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Colossal
In 2016, this monster movie came and went very quickly, until the other day it started streaming on Netflix, where I found it.
Bored, I clicked on it, and discovered this under-rated, highly refreshing monster drama.
I highly recommend 'COLOSSAL.' not as the action movie it's labelled as, but as a subdued monster movie like Godzilla, and especially Mothera. It's even got Hitchcockian, Twilight Zoneish, and Outer Limits twists to it.
I'm not talking creeping death, or bumps in the night. Instead, your stuck trying to figure out what the connection is between her and her monster? Is it psychological, is it cosmic horror, is she imagining it, is she losing it, not at all, or is it all too real?
This movie leads you down a light-hearted path of personal destruction in NY along with an impossible monster appearing and disappearing in South Korea. Like Mothera with the twin girls controlling the monster, in Colossal there is an unemployed 25-year-old NY Party Girl, who discovers by accident she controls this monster in Souel but only at a certain time of day. She discovers she's not alone, there is another monster controlled by someone else. As the story weaves between drinking buddies and their moral questions of who is the real monster, the creature, or the one who controls it?
Like Dr. Frankenstein, do we accept responsibility for our monster's actions and try to right our responsibility to society as a whole, or do we live to only satisfy our own ego regardless of who gets killed?
It explores the complexity of how power can corrupt one person, while another person takes it on as a personal challenge and suffers trying to right power's wrongs.
This movie builds to a showdown scene involving a physically abusive relationship which pushes her over the edge, where she has to make a horrifying decision about her monster.
There are no superheroes in this movie, only everyday people, some abusers, some users trying to survive one day at a time.
You'll love the twisted ending.