re: Trouble The Water

Setting aside their character deficiencies, or how you feel about Nola ghetto peeps, WHAT about that documentary would make you recommend it to a documentary fan ?

Was it a gripping story? I mean the storm camcorder footage was cool but, hell I have seen that three dozen times...

Was it what happened to them post-Katrina? Because nothing happened.

Was it the simplistic bush-bashing? Because so many others have done that much more convincingly.

Was it some technical aspect of the film?
Because it looked like shite.

Was it the compelling people?
Seriously, none of them offered a SINGLE original insight.

Seriously, It's not that I didn't like it..it's that i can't understand why anybody liked it.

It was like watching paint dry. It was about one of the most dramatic events of our lives, yet it bored me.

Spike Lee's agit-prop documentary, by contrast, was gripping. It gave us tremendous insight into people and events. Even if it made you want to throw a shoe at the tv, it went somewhere, and it moved you to strong emotion. And it was technically brilliant to boot.