The message below was just sent to me from Harry Shearer’s Team dedicated to Phase Two of the Release of The Big Uneasy documentary.

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THE BIG UNEASY – WHAT THIS FILM IS “NOT”

Media coverage of tragedies can become so pervasive that we no longer remember the tragedy anymore, we only remember the coverage. So if I say “New Orleans” and then say “flood,” you immediately think, “Katrina.” As in Hurricane. This is not your fault: it’s a reflex now, like your leg kicking upwards when the doctor taps it. Only that tap is causing you to kick me, and my fellow New Orleanians, squarely in the crotch.

The reason I made the film is because the hurricane did NOT cause the flood, despite what you may have heard on the news. However, poor science and even poorer management did.

So this film is NOT:

‐ A “Katrina documentary.”
‐ A documentary about the preparation or after‐effects of Katrina.
‐ An examination of the Bob Dylan song “Hurricane,” nor the boxer who inspired it.

Unfortunately, the looming myths and buzzwords that sprang from the tragic flooding of New Orleans have provided a rather large windmill to tilt against. But I thank you, New Orleans thanks you, Bob Dylan thanks you, and Derek Smalls is simply confused.

‐Harry Shearer