Trouble the Water (2008)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.6/10   

Directors:

Carl Deal
Tia Lessin

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

5 diciembre 2008 (UK)

Género:

Documental

Plot:

An aspiring rap artist and her streetwise husband, armed with a video camera, show what survival is all about when they are trapped in New Orleans by deadly floodwaters, and seize a chance for a new beginning. |

Plot Keywords:

Video Camera | New Orleans | Rapper | Flood | Oscar Nom 2009

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 6 wins & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

The specific nature of tragedy

Duración:

90 min | USA:93 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

USA:Unrated

Locaciones de Filmación:

Alexandria, Louisiana, USA

Compañía:

Elsewhere Films

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009) (TV)

The specific nature of tragedy

It begins as a lark. A video camera is switched on to record an approaching storm. We get to meet the smiling faces of videographers as they laugh and cajole. We on the other hand know what's about to confront them. Or at least we think we do.

This is a magnificent use of home video built in to a rage against poverty and illiteracy and racism. You can blame the victims here all you want, but image after image, scene after scene the plight of being an African American in this country is shoved in their faces...and in ours.

The lives of this family in the Lower 9th Ward are vividly drawn by themselves. When they confront what is outside, i.e., the post-segregation South, we are startled at the condescension, scorn and devaluation of human lives...if your skin is the wrong color.

The people here have no apologies for their lives. They lay it out and I suspect many will resist what struggles they face. But scene after scene, you can't walk away from this film without a better understanding of racism in America.

The stubborn will ask "Why didn't they leave when they were supposed to?" And this film records "How were they supposed to?" and "Where were they going to go?" In the face of it all, those who survive manage here to triumph. While the footage of the disaster is why most people will buy the ticket to see this, it's the struggle to survive, not only Katrina, that will last in the viewer's mind.