We know Katrina was a tragedy . We know many died. It was a natural disaster of a great magnitude. The film was good at showing that, but really, was showing all of those dead bodies necessary? What about their dignity? I just thought it was unnecessary.Katrina was bad enough without seeing the dead decomposed citizens.
I prayed for them . I have a brother who lives in Moss Point and went through it too.
I found that to be one of the highlights of the whole movie for me. If I watched it out of context I'd swear I'd be watching footage from a post-apocalypse movie. It's the kind of effect that is similar to be seen in holocaust documentaries: never forget, that sort of thing. It actually builds on a previous montage when Lee shows the spill going on in the Gulf for so many days straight. The choice of music especially made it provocative for me. I think Lee's documentary shows how much compassion he has for the people, alive and dead, so I think it really is a testament to them, not something to denigrate their dignity. That said, I understand where you're coming from with it, as it's very unsettling.
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I remember seeing some of the bodies on TV live during the storm. The media were told to stop showing the bodies. At that time I was mad they said that as if to not show what was really happening . It s obvious. I had mixed feelings.
The film was great though and I didn't expect to see so much current BP coverage.
It was horrible to look at. I found myself crying because I couldn’t help but wonder what these people were thinking during their last moments. We all expect to die, but do any of us expect to die in our houses because it filled with water and we couldn’t get out? To die on the streets or a front porch where we decompose until someone can get around to picking us up?
I had gotten so caught up in the violence in New Orleans, it’s crumbling economy, BP’s corruption that I had forgotten about how horribly people died when Katrina hit. It was rough to see, but I think this horrible reminder will help a lot of people remember that we all have to work to make sure this doesn’t happen again, and I think doing so is a fitting tribute to those who died.
That being said, I don’t know if I could watch all that again.
When the hurly-burly's done. When the battle's lost and won.
It's supposed to be hard to look at. Why did you mention that you prayed for them? So others can rest assured in the knowledge of your perfunctory, time wasting exercises with the unmistakable ulterior motive of easing your own conscience with delusional hopefulness? And then you want to pat yourself on the back for it? Next time send a dollar.
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Maybe you did need to see the dead bodies.
By showing those dead bodies, it shows reality for what it is.
The reason you dont want to see those bodies is because you're afraid of reality... and facing its horribleness.
By showing those bodies, it brings honor to their death... and shame on all of us who allowed such things to happen.
We allowed this to happen? I think not.
For years and years, money sent from the Feds for the levys was mishandled just like the piano was stolen as described, so Bush cut off the funding and rightfully so. What is the point if all the money just goes into the hands of the crooks?
It is/ was silly to build a city 9 feet below sea level on a coast that gets hit by hurricanes yearly.
I was passing by there in 2002 and noticed how bowl shaped the city was. I knew it was only a matter of time before the city would get hit.
I felt so bad for all those peeps and I knew they would never rebuild those projects. When then guy said a young black man could plant the trees I agreed but what I also know is most companies that do construction drug test and lots of the men can't pass that test. I have a friend in roofing who said he would hire any body who could pass the test and mostly had mexicans cause the young white and black American men did not pass the drug screen.
In a way we allowed it to happen. Support should have gotten there sooner... and the people caught up in the situation who had to wait... should have behaved more humanely to help each other, rather than loot, riot, kill, rape...
The crimes committed by the people, the cops... that was just not neccesary. Elderly dieing in their beds... on their porches...
the engineering failure...
I understand it was a natural disaster... but our behavior seemed to fail our human species in just about every way when it really mattered.
Think about this, that was a heck of a storm, it was traveling north. All the people and equipment that was gonna help had to wait till the storm passed them. Helicopters can't fly in 150 mile an hour wind.
I thought well if they knew exactly where it was gonna hit and then went 100 miles west of it, then they would be able to get there quicker but really, who thought it would be that bad? There have been too many false alarms and it would be too much hassle to overreact for every storm. With Rita, they halled ass and a bus load of old people died right down the road from my house in a freeway accident. Turned out their nursing home was unscathed. See you just never know.
My brother lives in Moss Point Mississippi and he got the worse part of the storm. He was at the two o'clock upper east side of the storm. He has lived there 39 years and said he had been through many hurricanes and never thought it was gonna be like it was.
People need to realize if it's a huge storm, it's gonna take a while before the Calvary can get to them.
and the people caught up in the situation who had to wait... should have behaved more humanely to help each other, rather than loot, riot, kill, rape...Did you watch this documentary? Or the earlier When the Levees Broke? The citizens did not "riot, kill, rape" and the large majority of "looting" was done for survival supplies. This point is made over and over in both films, from the perspective of more than just a few people. You can also see it demonstrated in other eyewitness documentaries, like Trouble the Water.
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The time to have been concerned for these folks' dignity was when they were living, or when they were dying. The dead have no use for dignity.
The fact that you said "I didn't need to see dead bodies" proves you are exactly who needed to be shown the reality of human suffering.
Real people died. The neglect of the maintenance and improvement of the wetlands by the Army Corps of Engineers and 4 decades of the environmental degradation of barrier wetlands caused from the canals made by oil and gas companies.
Katrina itself did not cause the flooding. The levees failed.
Spike Lee's documentaries on Katrina, and now the effects of the BP caused catastrophe are crucially important documentation of history.
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I understand what you are saying, but I think that sometimes people NEED to see the truth naked, unbiased, and brutal. Our media has a tendency to b.s. a bit much. They will say this, but not that. They will show this, but not that. What you get in the way knowledge and real information is filtered, p.c. b.s. People NEED their eyes opened about what is going on in their country and who is responsible. And unfortunately the way people are today sometimes they need to be knocked over the head with brutal images and point-blank talk curse words included. When I saw people laying dead in the streets, gutters, sitting in lawn chairs I thought I was looking at something that happened in another country. But then I remembered that I was watching something that had happened in The United States of America.
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