The original Godzilla film is a masterpiece of filmaking and storytelling. The film came out in 1954. It follows the story of a dinosaur like creature who attacks and terrorizes the Japanses mainland, destroying cities and killing thousands of people. For the vast majority of the film, the characters were helpless to stop Godzilla's reign of destruction

This film came out only a couple years after the end of World War II and Japan's defeat at the hands of the United States of America. Following the war, the United States engaged in various nuclear testing, especially in the area known as Bikini Atoll. This, coupled with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the war, fostered a fear of nucear weapons and destruction among the Japanese populace.

This was exemplified in the original Godzilla film in 1954. Godzilla was the physical emobodiment of those fears. The fears that their lives could end suddenly and destructively. The effects of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were still fresh in many people's minds. Those cities were obliterated, and thousands of people were annihilated. For those that did survive the bombings, they faced unimaginable effects. Many sustained serious burns and there were women who gave birth children with horrible birth defects and deformations.

The 1954 Godzilla acts as a warning, not only for the Japanese people, but also the world, that humanity must stray away from nuclear weaponry. It states that such a path will only lead to destruction and death. Godzilla in the film was created and awakened by nuclear testing. it was then that he engaged in his vengeful destruction of Japan and its people. If humanity is not careful, Godzilla (nuclear weaponry), will rise up and destroy all of humanity. Once it has reached its peak, there is little to no hope of stopping it from progressing further. Instead, humanity should strive for peace, not destruction.