When the levees break , 2006 a new film by Spike Lee
2 ratings since posting on Saturday, September 16, 2006
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I finished watching Spike Lee's "When the Levees Broke" last evening. It's a long documentary, in four acts. Each around an hour long. Long, but not boring. Chilling, in fact. Here's the link so you can order your own copy: www.hbo.com/docs/program...eleveesbroke/ If you are a teacher, you can sign up for a free copy with a curriculm. You'll also find ongoing discussion materials here: www.teachingthelevees.org/ Bravo to Mr. Lee for telling us a story that we should have been told two years ago. When the poorly constructed New Orleans levees broke, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and the working class poor were left to contend with the disaster on their own. As if that wasn't horrific enough, tho, it may surprise you to learn that folks in the ninth ward are STILL contending with insurance companies that won't pay. FEMA is still fumbling in the region. And many homeowning, tax paying US citizens have been left, figuratively,"high and dry." How, exactly, do insurance companies get away with refusing to pay out on a home after collecting fifty years of premiums? I'd really like to know! My son is going to New Orleans in the spring. He's taking the youth group from First Parish. To help clean and rebuild. That boggles my mind! Two+ years after this catastrophy, people still need help cleaning out their homes? What the F---? I wonder if it will take this long for the wealthier citizens of Southern California to rebuild? Judging from FEMA's reaction out west, I'll bet not. We're not fooled, Mr. Bush. We know what you think of the working class in this nation. Over the backs of whom you wage your wars and score your big oil profits. Watching your responses to these two disasters makes your priorities painfully clear. Amma -  Amma
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posted 10/31/07
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I really recommend this film. i Had no idea really what had happened in New Orleans. It is refreshing to see current issues being handled responsibly and well by a respected film maker . I truly hope to see more filmmaking of this quality about what is happening today. I saw this on HBO Spike Lee: The thing that's very hard for me, and I think'll be hard for any filmmaker who has to ask difficult questions, especially when you're asking people who've lost loved ones, is that, as a filmmaker and as a storyteller, it was my job, it was my duty to ask some difficult questions that I knew would stir up feelings...that would make people break down. Now, that was not my intention. But we have people talk about how their whole life has been changed. So it's very important that the audience, not just here in the United States but all over the world, hear these stories from these individuals, these witnesses, who saw the horror of what happened in New Orleans. - arrow one , posted 09/16/06 |
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