There's so much tragedy still ongoing in New Orleans' recovery that it's just damn sad. More and more it's easy to see institutions emphasized over people. Corporate concerns prioritized over clean water, whether it's in the Gulf of Mexico or downstream from some fucking chicken shit-spewing animal farm. At the same time though, I see too many people siding against their own self-interest as biological beings - as if British Petroleum was some sort of deity that cannot be crossed with heretical observations contrary to holy official reports that it's all over and there's nothing to worry about.
That's what I like about this film - Spike Lee is not going to ever let anyone forget what happened five years ago with Katrina.
I abandoned an incomprehensible post less than a week ago contrasting George Bush's war in Iraq supposedly coming to an end on the same day that the U.S. Congress indicted some jerk-off baseball player for lying about personal use of steroids. I suppose Congress' own complicity in enabling the stupid fucking murder fest to happen in Iraq was probably a consideration in going after a lying athlete rather than a lying politician.
Anyway, it's clear that quaint notions of Law only apply so far and for so much and for so many. We are witnessing anarchy in its worst possible form - the plutocrats are untouchable as they run wild with their policemen and their other mercenaries.
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