Sunday, August 19, 2007

Spike Lee's TV Documentary "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts"

This is a four-hour documentary about Katrina (available to rent from Blockbuster in two seperate parts). What I found particularly interesting was the look it gave me into the lives and personalities of those who were trapped in the city during the flooding and the days afterwards - though on the news there was a tiny bit of discussion regarding the fact that these people were left to fend for themselves in this situation because they are basically social outcasts of various sorts (poor, elderly, disabled, etc), this documentary really captures these people in a more personal and human light, instead of through the distancing and awkward lens of PC journalism.

The official website at HBO

Links to few reviews, posted at BBC

(I drafted this post a whle ago and intended to add clips and reviews this week, but I have no internet access in my hotel room in Nashville unfortunately - but of course if you want to find more to see and read, there is always Google!)

ADDITION By DV: You can find material at Youtube starting here:

3 comments:

Jo Maselli said...

P.S. If you want to see the two-year anniversary follow-up segment (again by Spike Lee), it airs this Wednesday on CNN at 8pm, and is aptly named "Children of Katrina"

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