The marshall’s response was to ask for one last chance and his voice was quite firm. Pentecost also displayed optimism when he was talking to the UN representatives when they want to cancel the Jaeger Program, for the machines were being destroyed faster than being built. All the weapons in the world are useless, if nobody is believes the battle can be won. If people don’t believe that they can overcome a difficult situation, they run the risk of falling into a self-fulfilled prophecy: if you believe you will fail, you will fail. He is very confident that humans can defeat the monsters. In this scene he is standing tall and speaking in a loud and determined manner. In Pentecost’s motivational speech he states that “today we are cancelling the apocalypse”. In addition to collaboration, optimism is another factor that allows the humans to defeat the Kaiju. The collaboration in Pacific Rim reminds me of Big Hero 6, as both films require a team of people to take down the antagonist. Such is the nature of war in real life: unlike the movies it is not one person who achieves victory, it is a combined effort between people that does.
The need for 4 people and the heroic sacrifice reveals that some problems cannot be solved by 1 person. When Mako says goodbye to her mentor, she understands what needs to be done and the lack of subtitles highlights the depressingly necessary nature of the tactic. Before the Jaeger exploded, Mako tells Pentecost “sensei, I love you” in Japanese but the words were not translated.
Chuck Hansen,the copilot, agrees with his partner, stating “my father (Herc) always said, if you have a shot, take it”. The lady in question is Mako Mori, Raleigh’s copilot of the Gipsy Danger and the marshal’s foster daughter. In order to clear a path, Marshal Stacker Pentecost decides to sacrifice the Striker Eureka to “clear a path for the lady”. In the final battle, the two remaining Jaegers, each piloted by 2 people, bring the fight to the enemy. At the beginning of the film Raleigh Becket, the protagonist and narrator, states that after the first few kaiju attacks, “the world came together, pooling it’s resources and throwing aside old rivalries for the sake of the greater good.“ The Jaegers are big robots that require a lot of resources to build but by the world uniting, enough resources could be procured to make the giant robots. These two themes allow the humans to overcome the giant hurdles that are the Kaiju.Ĭollaboration allowed humans to defeat the kaiju, a task nobody can do alone. The humans finally seal the Breech to cancel the apocalypse but not without casualties. Two of the major themes in the movie are collaboration and optimism. The machines proved useful in the war until the Kaiju adapted, forcing politicians to doubt the Jaeger program’s viability. In the movie Pacific Rim , humanity builds giant robots called Jaegers in response to titanic monsters called Kaiju.