There's always an element of catastrophe in Anderson's films, yet here it's set in expressly mythopoetic, religious terms, with the local historian and narrator (Bob Balaban) foretelling, as if prophetically, apocalyptic doings.
Among the most striking elements of the catastrophe at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors in Japan were the hydrogen explosions that destroyed the upper parts of some of the reactor buildings.
The commanding general, Paul Harkins, was unwittingly preparing a catastrophe for the American enterprise in South Vietnam & for those Vietnamese who had thrown in their lot with the US & Vann saw the elements of that catastrophe with more clarity than anyone else in Vietnam at the time & was determined to prevent it.
In the disaster last month, all the elements for catastrophe were there: A bare-bones reservoir of mining waste built on the cheap, sitting above a large town nestled underneath.
Once negligible facts or events suddenly reveal themselves as central to the tragedy - an element of the Balkan catastrophe familiar to anyone who witnessed it (Ugresic is Croatian, but prefers not to be identified as a "Croatian novelist").
"He challenges an actor to go to the limits of human experience, and find the surprising elements of humor and pathos, the absurd and the pathetic, at the very edges of catastrophe.
Furthermore, since the development of earlier versions of catastrophe models, technology and computing power have advanced enormously, allowing modelers to address key elements of model and loss uncertainty in a more systematic way.
There are times in Catastrophe that Rob and Sharon flash elements of sitcom tropes, playing off elements of the Nagwife or the Lumbering Oaf.
We are on the brink of catastrophe".
