When Things Fall Apart : Throughline Climate change, political unrest, random violence - Western society can often feel like what the filmmaker Werner Herzog calls, "a thin layer of ice on top of an ocean of chaos and darkness." Are we always on the cusp of brutality? Throughline When Things Fall Apart When Things Fall Apart Listen · 50:28 50:28 Enlarge this image KenCanning/Getty Images KenCanning/Getty Images Climate change, political unrest, random violence - Western society can often feel like what the filmmaker Werner Herzog calls, "a thin layer of ice on top of an ocean of chaos and darkness."