'IF you don't have money and you don't have status, you don't have a government."

After watching this Oscar-nominated documentary, largely shot at Katrina's ground zero, you've got to acknowledge: The lady has a point.

This is no arm's-length, objective view of the disaster. It specifically follows the fortunes of would-be rapper Kimberly Roberts, who acquired a video camera a few days prior to the hurricane and then used it to capture both the jittery prelude and the horrifying spectacle of the rising floodwaters after the levees broke.