.dstfelix reviews two documentaries that are now streaming: “Katrina Babies,” about Hurricane Katrina’s reverberating effects, and “Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist,” about Manti Te’o, whose life was torn apart by a catfishing scandal.
What makes a generation a generation? Collective identity is often forged through catastrophe. In the United States, we bicker over cohort-establishing events: an endless war, economic collapse, the onslaught of illness. “Katrina Babies,” a documentary by Edward Buckles, Jr., released on HBO Max before the seventeenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, argues for the ordination of the storm as a defining American tragedy. Buckles’s memory piece springs from a well of frustration.
Although the mayor of New Orleans issued a mandatory evacuation order shortly before the hurricane, thousands of residents stayed, lacking the resources to leave. The Buckles family left town at the last minute, at the sudden urging of Buckles’s mother, whose son claims she has a knack for prophetic visions.
“Katrina Babies” is deeply conversant with “The Shock Doctrine,” Naomi Klein’s exploration of how governments, in the wake of disaster, take advantage of a stunned populace to fulfill a political agenda. Buckles argues that P.T.S.D. from Katrina was not inevitable; the experience of young people in New Orleans was essentially engineered by an inhumane government. “Katrina Babies” also thoroughly indicts Bush-era media for its criminalization of Black New Orleanians.
The football player Manti Te’o is now a saint. He was canonized by LeBron James. A week after the release of “Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist,” a two-part Netflix documentary about Te’o, a wunderkind linebacker whose life was torn asunder by a catfishing scandal, James tweeted, “Manti Te’o you good brother!!,” with a raised-fist emoji. “Good” as in exonerated, granted entrance again to a fraternity that had ejected him from its halls.
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