Nature points out the folly of men

“History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men.”

Despite the fact that Godzilla is this unstoppable larger-than-life behemoth who can level entire cities and leave widespread death and destruction in his wake, I love how the film makes it abundantly clear that mankind is still more dangerous than a two-million year old fire-breathing lizard. Godzilla wreaking havoc is simply man’s punishment for the evil they do, which in the film’s case, is the creation of the atomic bomb. In the old testament, God sends a great flood to sweep the land and destroy most of humanity for the exact same reason - because mankind became too depraved and wicked. If the wickedness and depravity continues, then only more great flood’s and Godzilla’s will be sent to sweep the land and destroy humanity until they finally get it through their heads that no heinous atrocity is committed without consequence. For a film that’s classified as a “monster-movie”, you’d expect it to be commercial and cheesy, but Godzilla is anything but that. I found it’s calamity to be very believable, and unexpectedly thought-provoking. A story that very much speaks to post-war Japan’s perspective of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.