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Wow, seems like I couldn’t have been any more right:

“[It works] in the same way that Godzilla was really a metaphor for its time, and was a sort of movie about the A-bomb and Hiroshima and all of that,” he says. “The idea of it dealing with the anxiety of that time and that’s why it captured so much attention because it tapped right into people’s anxieties… I think that what was really interesting here was knowing that we were going to be dealing with the metaphor of what this was and dealing with the anxieties of our time. We thought that there would be something really sort of powerful about the idea, like in the trailer, having this very naturalistic, realistic vibe, and having you start to say, ‘What is going on? This seems like a horrifying event.’ And then suddenly when you see the head, everything starts to tilt like a prism. And you’re like, ‘Wait a minute. That couldn’t be terrorism because what did they do, take off the head of the Statue of Liberty and throw it at New York? What’s with that?’ It evokes these things and in a way enables us — the fun of it, the idea of it — it enables you to approach those feelings and deal with it in a safer way. So it ends up being a kind of thrill ride and it’s also evocative of those feelings and hopefully has resonance as well. At the end of the day, the movie is this giant monster movie. But there is something in the idea of what monster movies do for us, and how they can deal with our anxieties and our fears, and we really hope that this works in that way.”
- from an interview with the director of the film

This guy really seems like he knows what he’s doing. This movie is going to be awesome.