Film review #2

My Louisiana Love is a documentary that was published on May 20, 2017 directed by Sharon Linezo Hong  and produced by Sharon Linezo Hong, Julie Mallozzi, and Monique Michelle Verdin. The documentary is about an hour long story discussing changes brought to the environment and indigenous communities before and after Katrina by a woman who’s family actually lived in the community.Sharon Hong is shown going through a day to day life with her family and the struggles that they have to go through before Katrina with the oil and gas companies and pipelines.To me I feel like it’s a great story but it’s an repeated story.The film was emotional however was a little too much.

The documentary is specifically told from the point of view of people in the community who have been first hand affected by these pipelines in their own backyards.The film is made up of a series of photos, home videos, and maps.The beginning opens with video footage of Verdin and a family member fishing in the delta and older photographs of she and her family members.The angels used  in this film are up close and personal to symbolize the experiences and hardships that those people have experienced throughout the documentary.I appreciate that the film focuses on the people.

    The director achieved their job in informing and bringing attention to the environmental injustice in the indigenous Native American community caused by the oil industry. The usage of the different types of digital media gave the film a glimpse into the raw view into the emotion and reality of the people affected.My  response to the film is that while its a long film,it still holds strong messages and is informative. I would recommend this film to others because it lets people humanize the people and not just seeing them as an event but the impacts.

The impression that this film left with me is that it is important to learn and that we hold the people who actually are responsible for climate change accountable for what they have done. I believe that this film is a must-see for the people of Louisiana in order to understand the extent of the damage that environmental injustice causes to communities, especially the communities that are considered virtually invisible.I would grade this film as an A because it highlights an important issues with the oil and gas industry that’s long-standing for us.