"When this original version was finally shown in America last year, people flocked to see it. They said it was an expression of nuclear anxiety to rank with Dr Strangelove Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black comedy starring Peter Sellers] and Hiroshima Mon Amour [directed by Alain Resnais in 1959]."
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Margaret Deriaz, "Godzilla: He's back (and this time he's serious)", by Robert Hanks, The Independent, (31 August 2005).
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