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"Trouble the Water" takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. The film opens the day befo | dG1fQ3E0MjZWalpEMUU
Transcript
00:01My name is Scott Michael Roberts.
00:03This is my wife, Kimberly Roberts.
00:05We're from New Orleans.
00:06The name war, Underwater.
00:09It is on the news that it's like aiming toward Mississippi
00:12so we might get the outskirts.
00:14If the sky is look pretty now,
00:16it sure soon will change.
00:19Yeah, I hear some thunder.
00:22Golly!
00:23Look at that water, boy!
00:25Whew, Lord!
00:26Yo, you see how hot it is?
00:28Ooh, be with us, Lord, please.
00:32All this water, come and do the wonders.
00:36Ay, help us get off the roof, man!
00:38You a real hero, boy!
00:40We under siege, truly under siege.
00:42Everybody done lost everything around here.
00:44Now you have seen what Katrina has done to us.
00:46She has stuck us in her attic.
00:48I'm running out of juice, too.
00:53These houses have not been expected yet.
00:55They could be dead people right now as we speak
00:57to the National Guard.
00:58They have not been here.
00:59And it's two weeks after the hurricane.
01:05This is one of the Navy bases
01:07that Bush had planned to close down.
01:09Why can't we stay overnight?
01:10What about the women and children?
01:12They say, get off our property
01:13or we gonna start shooting.
01:15We don't need you out here if you try to trouble the waters.
01:19I don't want to raise your expectations too high.
01:22My son wanted to join the army.
01:24You're not gonna fight for a country
01:25that does not give a damn for you.
01:27Don't come to our town if you try to trouble the waters.
01:31The hoods always be last to be fixed.
01:33I'm living life out of Katrina.
01:35It's hard out here.
01:36You gonna make it.
01:37Okay, we all gonna make it.
01:38Don't stop hustling.
01:39They gonna...
01:40I got that heat for they ass.
01:43I urge the citizens to continue to listen to the local authorities.
01:46It's our home.
01:47Our food.
01:48Our neighbors.
01:49Our problems.
01:50That's where I want to be at.
01:56Between is still going on.
02:00Night walk.

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