... of our seats and feel our hearts pounding as the hero and heroine overcome nearly impossible odds. In case you’re wondering, the highest-grossing disaster movie in the U.S. so far is Independence Day, the movie about a worldwide alien invasion. Roland Emmerich, the director of Independence Day, claims that disaster movies are cathartic. They allow the audience to release tension over their fears of the future. As he says, “You see all this destruction and everything but at the end the right people save ...
