"Trouble the Water"

As is sometimes the case I can be behind the curve on films, and tonight that never felt more the case while watching this amazing documentary from last year. This story of a young New Orleans couple, Kim and Scott, whose home was in the Ninth Ward during the Katrina disaster had one stunning scene after another, stunning in some disturbing, could at times say evil, ways and in some inspiring good ways. It was emotionally exhausting to watch. The footage filmed and narrated by Kim with a camcorder of the arrival of the storm and the efforts to survive it in the opening third of the film was almost hard to believe, both dispassionate and passionate reporting of what she knew needed to be documented. Their story after surviving documented by the professional filmakers never let down.