There must be some kind of way out of here

The catastrophe is tirelessly repeated in Hollywood cinema. The disaster movie genre hints at the collective psyche of its respective historical epochs. The perspective of a postmodern longing for moments of spectacular destruction, which briefly interrupts the dull monotony of late capitalist consumerism, reveals the contradictions within postmodern pop culture. The disaster movie is symptomatic of both the longing to overturn the status quo and the opposing desire to see it instantly restored.