Summers of Wind and Rain
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)
directed by Spike Lee
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
Nothing like having the young heart of October ripped from its chest by a still-tender reminder of past miseries. Unless you want to cop some line about true-life horror, which is a terrible sentiment that I reject completely. You'll just have to bear with me while the queue catches up to the season.
Spike Lee could probably talk to more New Orleans residents with less difficulty than almost any other A-list director who might have helmed this project. If he isn't very curious with the questions he asks, the failures of Katrina are obvious enough to speak for themselves. Less insight than reminder, each plea, clip, and recollection is sadness piled on heartbreak, to disastrous effect. I'm always on the lookout for new anecdotes about unfairly maligned LBJ, so often the man the country took for granted, with a long way to go to receive his due:
"I am here because I want to see with my own eyes what the unhappy alliance of wind and water have done to this land and to its good people. And when I leave today to go back to Washington you can be sure that the federal government's total resources, with the help of the fine Louisiana Delegation, will be turned toward helping this state and its citizens find its way back from this tragedy."
directed by Spike Lee
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
Nothing like having the young heart of October ripped from its chest by a still-tender reminder of past miseries. Unless you want to cop some line about true-life horror, which is a terrible sentiment that I reject completely. You'll just have to bear with me while the queue catches up to the season.
Spike Lee could probably talk to more New Orleans residents with less difficulty than almost any other A-list director who might have helmed this project. If he isn't very curious with the questions he asks, the failures of Katrina are obvious enough to speak for themselves. Less insight than reminder, each plea, clip, and recollection is sadness piled on heartbreak, to disastrous effect. I'm always on the lookout for new anecdotes about unfairly maligned LBJ, so often the man the country took for granted, with a long way to go to receive his due:
"I am here because I want to see with my own eyes what the unhappy alliance of wind and water have done to this land and to its good people. And when I leave today to go back to Washington you can be sure that the federal government's total resources, with the help of the fine Louisiana Delegation, will be turned toward helping this state and its citizens find its way back from this tragedy."
posted by NPK at 10:48 AM
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