The story begins with Gloria’s life in New York falling apart, for reasons we can quickly pick up. Her journey back back home is a fall from grace but perhaps a new start, but that’s complicated by a strange connection with a kaiju that terrifies Seoul.
This film blends multiple genres but keeps its focus on character and despite its grand scale keeps a firm grip on its humanity. We’ve built up a small film backlog, and tonight I felt like going for something for adults about adults, and was richly rewarded. Colossal does a great job of taking a supernatural premise, grounded in childhood imagination, making it real in all its terrible glory with some unexpected implications, and using it to explore some aspect of life on a grand scale.
If you love to see that done well half as much as I do, than I heartily recommend this film (with the note that its rated R for a reason).
Image credit: Promotional poster from IMDB.
Film source: Gift from Moti. Thanks Moti!
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