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COOKED: SURVIVAL BY ZIP CODE
A film by A film by Judith Helfand • A co-production of Judith Helfand Productions, Kartemquin Films and Independent Television Service (ITVS).
Chicago suffered the worst heat disaster in U.S history in 1995, when 739 residents—mostly elderly and black—died over the course of one week. As COOKED links the heat wave’s devastation back to the underlying manmade disaster of structural racism it delves deep into one of our nation’s biggest growth industries: disaster preparedness. Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand (Blue Vinyl, Everything’s Cool), uses her signature serious-yet-quirky, connect-the-dots style to forge inextricable links between extreme weather, extreme disparity and the politics of “disaster”, daring to ask: What if a zip code was just a routing number, and not a life-or-death sentence?
COOKED reframes the narrative from a story about a devastating heat disaster to one about what happens when the long-term impacts of systemic inequality and racism meet climate change.
AWARDS:
WINNER! FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AWARD SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
JURY AWARD BEST FEATURE FILM EARTHXFILM
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL AT YALE
OFFICIAL SELECTION ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL
Package Dimensions : 7.56 x 5.39 x 0.63 inches; 2.72 ounces
Director : Judith Helfand
Media Format : NTSC
Run time : 54 minutes
Release date : April 20, 2021
Actors : Judith Helfand
Studio : Bullfrog Films
ASIN : B08XLJ8W77
Country of Origin : USA
Number of discs : 1
Rocquael –
If you wish for context watch; If you only want to be spoon fed a headline then this is not for you
Iâm saddened but not surprised about all the downvoting here. This film used the 1995 heatwave and the resulting deaths as a springboard to tell the story of âwhyâ it happened, i.e. to provide context. The reviewers who are describing the documentary promotion as some sort of bait and switch either completely missed the point or are unhappy with the conclusion drawn: the reason for the more than 700 deaths resulting from the heatwave is *Malign Neglect. PERIOD.This concept of malign neglect is the same reason black and Latino Americans are dying from COVID-19 at alarming rates. It has nothing to do what what they may or may not have done. I understand that Americans are comfortable with the American exceptionalism myth that posits that every American no matter who she is and where he comes from has the same opportunity to pull oneself up by oneâs bootstraps. Problem is this bootstrap theory of American opportunity is now and has always been a lie. This documentary (in using this nationâs housing policies (redlining) and emergency preparedness policies that has resulted from natural disasters like the 1995 Chicago heatwave and Katrina (and while not addressed in the documentary COVID-19 pandemic) to illustrate the lie that is American exceptionalism. A lie Americans continue to tell themselves in order to be comfortable in allowing fellow Americans to live impoverished lives fueled by racist (both de jure and de facto) policies that ensures people will die when they should have lived – malign neglect.* Malign – evil in nature or effect; malevolent.* Neglect – the state or fact of being uncared for. Or, not to pay proper attention to; to disregard.Racism is the engine that is running this society into the ground. Racism is evil. It is a condition that breeds in a society that lacks love one for another.Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. Corinthians 13:6-7; 13Until we take Corinthians 13 as self-evident truth, the nation will continue to die from malignant racism. We believe racism affects only the disfavored in society. Untrue. Like any cancer left untreated it spreads and causes the death of the entire organism.When I started this review I did not intend for it to be a treatise. But here it is. Downvote it if youâd like.
Hannah Chappell –
A different take on the term “disaster”
I really liked this film for the perspective it provides and information that I feel would otherwise be unnoticed. It makes you think about the true meaning of a disaster and think of those most impacted by them. I liked this documentary a lot!
Kim Cooper –
Everyone needs to see this documentary!
Horrifying and sad. These heat waves will not go away. We need to know how to help low income and elderly folks to survive, as well as everyone else.
ClassicBabe –
Natural vs. unnatural disasters for poorest US citizens
Spoiler- This is a well thought out and filmed documentary, highlighting antiquated funding mechanisms which respond to ânatural disastersâ. Those disasters most frequently impact neighborhoods of poor minorities. The film exposes the stark reality of disproportionate deaths between rich and poor communities. Every person should watch films like this before occupying a public office.
Anna –
5 stars!
great film!
April –
Meandering look at disaster prep and socioeconomic status in America
After a shaky personal introduction of the narratorâs anticlimactic experience in Superstorm Sandy, it became promising with a look at the heat wave disaster in Chicago, something Iâve always been interested in learning more about and as seen in the advertisement, well… advertised. I was enlightened at the maps she shared overlapping various measures of poverty: location of grocery stores, unemployment, breast cancer rates, diabetes rates… measured against deaths in the heat wave. Fascinating. HORRIFYING. This is the little known/lost information that I wanted to see in this film. But it quickly turned into something I didnât care for – she put first responders and volunteers on the spot for how they should solve generational poverty. She acted as though they were tone deaf, but she was the one that was tone deaf. It took many many turns regarding the New Madrid Fault, mammograms, food deserts, tornado prep, etc. All of which were informational, designed to educate and I assumed would dovetail into preventing disasters such as the Chicago heat wave disaster. I donât recall if it even made it back to the original point.3 stars for giving me a few minutes of new information on the heat wave. Had it been billed as a macro/high level look at poverty in America, I may have âgot itâ more.
g3amazon –
3.5 stars more than one horse crossed this stream
Overall this was informative though the blurb describing this film as being about the Chicago heat deaths of ’95 is not accurate. The filmmaker obviously had a lot they wanted to say or to raise awareness on these issues and seemed to try to cram a loot in to this film;admire the effort though it is really no different then what the first responders questioned here said – there is only so much to go around. There has always been a disparity of wealth ever since man formed communities and the best most folks can do is to not get runover by it. The rich have taught the middle class to the the poor and once there is no middle class the rich will have what they want.
Fit –
Pandering hogwash
“A white person cannot imagine what it’s like to be a black person and not have access to healthcare and resources”. What? Wow. The white, liberal, college educated shrink has just informed me that 1) I didn’t grow up in a basement apartment with cockroaches, poor, hungry and neglected medically. 2) my alcoholic, drug-addicted LGBTQ moms were not discriminated against and we did not suffer as a family, culturally, at the hands of mainstream culture. Good to know.