This film dealt with the effect of Hurricane Katrina on some lower class residents of New Orleans. One of them buys a $20 video camera just before the storm hits and gets some before and during footage. These people later hook up with some professional filmmakers who return with them and record the aftermath of the storm on their lives.
The main problem for me was the main character, a loud, motor-mouthed ex junkie who talked and talked and eventually drove me right out of the theater. Her filmmaking technique was very poor...constant camera movement and zoom-panning. Gave me a headache.
The storm footage was interesting but very brief. The rest of the film paled beside Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke.
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