NEW YORK:

Controversial American director Spike Lee is planning to make a documentary in Louisiana to explore if race and politics played a part in the aftermath of the hurricane. According to contactmusic.com, Lee wat-ched the coverage of the disaster while he was filming in Venice, Italy. He compares the New Orleans situation to the film Chinatown, where it starts out as a simple detective story, but unravels to reveal a complex story of corruption and greed. He says, “People could not believe, especially the residents of the Ninth Ward (in New Orleans), that there was not hanky-panky in the flooding. And what I thought about automatically was Chinatown, the great film by Roman Polanski. The whole sub-plot of the whole thing is about water in Southern California and how it was not delivered to the people who needed it.” Lee also says he will use “factual journalism, not creative narrative” in the documentary. He plans to have the movie ready for next year’s one-year anniversary of the hurricane.