I'm Carolyn Parker

Demme's approach is pretty much to set the context minimally and then let people talk. It has a tendency to make the film a little looser and more ramshackle than it should be at times, but it also vividly brings to life the fact that this story is about people who had their entire lives upended and the vast injustice of it taking literal years to get the very basics back.

Carolyn Parker is quite a piece of work: vivacious, funny, succinct. There's lots of hope in this story amid the dreary circumstances in which they lived and it's particularly uplifting watching her surmount every indomitable odd thrown her way, trying to rebuild her home while lifting the spirits of the people closest to her. Demme could've shown us more footage, perhaps of the people she might have inspired along the way, but still a nice documentary about the triumph of human spirit.