'Trouble The Water'

'Trouble The Water' NR ***

Documentary Directed By Tia Lesson and Carl Deal

"Trouble The Water" is a documentary that painfully revisits the after effects of Hurricane Katrina and how it affected the lives of the people that stayed behind. It tells the story of the poorer people who had to struggle to find shelter amidst the devastation. It focuses on a female would be rapper and her husband as they take us on a tour of the destruction, the Government failing them and the anger built up inside them feeling that no one cared. They are angry, abandoned and they feel wronged by a clumsy FEMA and a President who dropped the ball when it came to addressing the problem. I could go on and on about how incompetent Bush was and how cold and stupid FEMA was but this is not about politics. This is about people that had their lives altered when they had little to begin with. It is about peoples lives destroyed and how their spirit and resolve kept them fighting to get their life back to normal. There are shots of the destruction and it is sobering to see this aftermath and the effect it had on these people. This is a painful look back but a necessary one with an actual uplifting ending. "Trouble The Water" is now on DVD.