Summary: Phil Venables shares his favorite disaster movies that highlight real-life crises and the responses to them. He appreciates films that focus on procedural details rather than just explosive events. His top picks include “Chernobyl,” “Deepwater Horizon,” and “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.”
the leaders who, even when the disaster happened still cannot believe it is happening because of their prior cognitive dissonance that it couldn’t happen. (View Highlight)
It’s a great telling, again, of all the small decisions that didn’t look so bad at the time that became a massive issue and by the time it was a mess, people had convinced themselves it wasn’t. (View Highlight)