Colossal (2017)
Colossal is the last monster movie you will watch when you want to watch a monster movie. If you expect a monster movie like Godzilla or Pacific Rim , this movie will provide an awkward viewing experience. The film is sort of an abnormal hybrid between fantasy and realism, a monster invasion with a personal drama. Separately, they are generic raw materials that are often used in a film, but when combined, they become a very original cinematic concept that we rarely find in the last few years.
Anne Hathaway plays Gloria, a beautiful and intelligent woman but also a party girl who has a self-destructive tendency. He lives with his girlfriend, Tim ( Dan Stevens ) in an apartment in New York. But not anymore, because Tim had packed Gloria's clothes and was ready to chase Gloria out of embarrassment with her drunken habits until the early hours. The team can not take it anymore, then suggested Gloria to find her identity first.
Therefore, Gloria returns to her hometown in a small town. Gloria intends to live in the house of her abandoned parents. While he was cleaning up, he met Oscar ( Jason Sudeikis ), a childhood friend who had always had a crush on him. Oscar has a family heritage bar, and sees Gloria being unemployed, offering him a job as a waiter in his bar. You certainly do not miss the word "bar" in the sentence just now, right? Of course, since this is a bar, Gloria will be hanging out with Oscar and her friends ( Tim Blake Nelson and Austin Stowell ) with more drinks, of course.
Gloria begins to realize that Tim is not her true love. It might be that the usual Oscar guy is the ideal partner he's been looking for all along. Slowly, Gloria begins to fall in love and tries to improve. At the end of the film, they live happily ever after. Seriously, the story is like this! Like the romantic comedies we've seen so often.
Of course not. The actual story is not like this. You also see a monster that nampang on the poster right? Of course there are monsters. This gigantic monster suddenly appeared in Seoul and ravaged the city. Gloria knew this when she watched it on television after a night's drunkenness. But there is something strange. This monster makes a funny funny gesture. Could this monster imitate Gloria's movement? Or is it Gloria who controls the monster?
The development of the plot, from a script written at once directed by Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo , is unique to watch. This movie did not spend our time looking at Gloria's journey to find out what really happened. When Gloria knew that this monster had a very strong relationship with her after a few short trials, all soon became personal to Gloria, especially to her chaotic lifestyle. Initially he had fun demonstrating his superhuman abilities to Oscar et al. But then, he shuddered at the realization that every little mess he made made a huge melee for many people in other parts of the world.
Intelligent audiences must recognize that this is an allegory of personal issues of Gloria itself and how it affects the people around it. However, Colossal was not focused solely on the symbolism because he also built his strange logic seriously. The appearance of this monster has rules. The new monster came out in Seoul at a certain hour when Gloria came in at a certain playground. At one point later, there is also a giant robot that appears with the same logic. How come? I do not really know. Moments like this sometimes funny, sometimes scary. Vigalondo embraced this absurdity of his premise with a straight line, not taking it for granted.
This is Vigalondo's third movie. Two previous films - Timecrimes about time travel and Extraterrestrial about alien abduction - it is also a spectacular concept film but handled on a small scale. CGI to create its monster is more than competent but used efficiently, because Colossal is more focused on human drama. The center of gravity is Hathaway. It features a balance between chaotic lifestyles and the attractive personality of Gloria. He's a self-destructive hobbyist, but smart enough to know that, which makes him pretty relatable. Sudeikis is suitable to be chosen as a "good guy", but when his character has to plunge into the darker realm, I think it is more appropriate when his role is given to Stevens who has proved his capability in this case through The Guest .
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