Odd Review of the God of Godzilla
"There's a reason his name begins with ' God ,' I think. He is a god, really," says British director Gareth Edwards , the man behind the latest reboot of the six-decade old Godzilla franchise. "He's at the top of the food chain and probably King of the World, in a sense. We did this title sequence at the beginning of the film filled with sea serpents , ancient Greek symbols , and that sort of thing, and the idea is that for all of time man has always found that there's something out there for us to worship or fear, and it's gone away for a while but in our film it returns." Writing about that subtext in the film, Christianity Today reviewer Timothy Wainwright said, "Godzilla is the weirdest Christ figure I've ever seen. I'll avoid spoilers, but suffice it to say that the movie honestly portrays a giant lizard with blue atomic breath as a divine figure." He's also an environmentalist hero of sorts: Edwards states,