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Ass-covering and denial in New Orleans THE BIG UNEASY : Written and directed by Harry Shearer. Cinematography, Arlene Nelson. Editor, Tom Roche. With Robert Bea, Ivor van Heerden and Maria Garzino. 2010. 98 minutes. 44411 THE LINCOLN LAWYER 7:35 SOURCE CODE 9:45 PAUL 7:35 We carry groceries from Holland, India, Pakistan and Polynesia SEPT. 3 Sushi & Asian deli take-out WIN WIN 5:40, 9:45 BREAKFAST CLUB 5:40 DOORS OPEN AT 4:30 FREE ENTRY BEER SPECIALS GO DUCKS! WoodÀ eld Station SHOPPING CENTER 29TH AVENUE 5 OAK STREET OREGON VS. LSU WILLAMETTE STREET H arry Shearer’s The Big Uneasy is not, the ﬁ lmmaker would like you to know, “a ‘Katrina documentary.’” Hard words to avoid when you’re discussing what happened in New Orleans in August of 2005, but Shearer has a point: The Big Uneasy isn’t about the people, or the ﬂ eeing, or the FEMA trailers, or the rebuilding. Instead, it takes on the Army Corps of Engineers, making the case that much of the Katrina-related devastation could have been avoided were the city not at the mercy of a deeply ﬂ awed, insufﬁ cient protection system. Shearer’s ﬁ lm takes some time to ﬁ nd its feet, weaving ﬁ rst through a dizzying series of Mardi Gras images and skipping through a handful of talking heads before settling on three central ﬁ gures: UC Berkeley professor Robert Bea, a former employee of the Corps, who co-led an investigation of the levee failures; former Louisiana State University Hurricane Center deputy director Ivor van Heerden; and Maria Garzino, a Corps engineer who investigated the water pump system put in place after Katrina and found it defective. The Big Uneasy contains a wealth of information pulled from news broadcasts, newspaper articles and the report Bea and his colleague Raymond Seed wrote after their investigation, as well as talking- head testimony from Corps employees, journalists and others. From time to time, Shearer veers off into “Ask a New Orleanian” segments introduced by a slightly crazed John Goodman. The bitterness and frustration hiding under the polite, technically focused surface of the ﬁ lm seeps through in Goodman’s tone and in the tight, practiced answers given by the residents Shearer assembles to take on typical questions: Why does the city stay there? Aren’t people just sitting around waiting for handouts? Using the experience of Bea, van Heerden and Garzino, Shearer builds a quietly damning case against the Corps, uncovering a culture of ass-covering and equivocation that puts too much value on easy solutions, even when such solutions are nothing but a Band-Aid over a gushing wound. In a disturbing segment, Shearer reveals that a contractor took the Corps to court over ﬂ awed plans — but lost, and was required to build the way the Corps directed. Bea and van Heerden’s ﬁ ndings detail weaknesses in the systems that existed before Katrina; Garzino’s unheeded warnings about the water pump system put in place after the hurricane suggest that there’s still little interest in getting it right. From time to time, a voice sympathetic to the Corps appears — one man says there are too few actual engineers in the Army Corps of Engineers these days — but whenever the Corps has a chance to speak for itself, it’s in a stubborn, bureaucratic tone that says nothing is wrong. It was just too strong, that hurricane. In his ﬁ lmmaker’s statement, Shearer writes, “Media coverage of tragedies can become so pervasive that we no longer remember the tragedy anymore, we only remember the coverage.” The Big Uneasy attempts, with moderate success, to return to the tragedy, and to shift the accepted narrative about what really happened in New Orleans. Certain directorial choices weaken Shearer’s message: the decision to use section headings is more confusing than clarifying, and editing blunts some of Garzino’s most pointed commentary. 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