This film is billed as a comedy however the life stressors of unemployment are not funny in the true comedic sense at all unless laughter is used instead of crying as a sort of defense mechanism. If any thing Roger & Me is such an extremely dark comedy, you need a microscope to find the humor. This story shows Michael Moore a Flint Michigan native who is looking for Roger Smith the CEO of General Motors after GM closes 11 plants in Flint and lays off more then 33,000 workers.
This story shows the affects that the closing of the Eleven plants has on Flint Michigan's economy as well as the effects on the laid off workers. One such a layoff of this magnitude in a community has a very detrimental affect on every aspect of life in the community as well as the individual. It is as if every thing needs a big antidepressant. I suppose in the film Pat Boone and Anita Bryant were suppose to be the big pill to pull them out of the black hole. That is depressing even thinking about in its own right. In fact, they really looked incredibly ridiculous. But what do Pat and Anita care, they were being paid, unlike the rest of the city. Businesses that were not directly affiliated with GM closed because people could not afford to shop or buy any extras in fact they were having a hard time just keeping a roof over there heads and I mean this literally. .
In a career development perspective, this would be job security in the biggest sense. Talk about displaced workers. Thirty -three thousand displaced workers to counsel and assist in developing new careers. Now that is a chore. .
Theorists would definitely agree that employment in this magnitude would definitely affect a person's self-worth and fear of the unknown would definitely be running rampant. The affects on the family as a whole is so detrimental. In Flint, domestic violence was at an all time high and other crime as well. The stress scales were over the top for most people in the film.
Roger & Me In 1989, Michael Moore released a documentary that he made called Roger & Me. ... Upon hearing the news, Michael Moore decided to film Roger & Me. ... Michael Moore was set in trying to get in touch with Roger Smith. ... This task took him many places in search of Roger Smith. ... Michael Moore was still on the trail of Roger Smith. ...
Recognize me not, by word, by sign, by look! ... Shouldst thou fail me in this, beware! ... When Roger found out that it was Arthur he was joyous. ... Roger began to thrive on hurting Arthur. ... Ay, ay, you must have known it; for he tells me he is of your party, and a close friend to the gentleman you spoke of, - he that is in peril from these sour old Puritan rulers!" ...
Roger and Me The Modes Moore Employs Roger and Me is the story of Michael Moore's quest to right the wrong done to Flint, Michigan by Roger Smith, CEO of General Motors. ... Roger and Me, on a basic level falls into the Interactive category with its involved interviews and archival footage. ... In Roger and Me, Michael Moore interviews many laid off auto workers, the city council of Flint, Michigan, representatives of upper-class Flint, and in the end, he finally speaks briefly with Roger Smith. ... Moore acts as the narrator/protagonist throughout Roger and Me, ushering the viewer on a g...
Roger & Me by Michael Moore is a documentary that set a new standard and a fresh outlook for a whole genre of films. ... The best moment was when Moore switches between Roger Smith reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, and the Sherriff evicting a family and watching the family throw their Christmas tree in the street. There is a moment where you feel all hatred for Roger Smith and GM. ...
It has been fourteen years since General Motors laid off 33,000 people and inspired Michael Moore's documentary "Roger & Me." ... However, in the late 1980's, GM president Roger Smith decided to close down some of the plants in Flint and laid off some 33,000 people. ... Their fears sound a lot like what happened in "Roger & Me" back in the 80's. "Roger & Me" delivered the message about Corporate Newspeak and how profits are more important to big American corporations than the lives of their workers. Movie Critic Roger Ebert said of "Roger & Me", "The movie is a counterattac...
Changes in Roger Chillingworth In the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, there is a character by the name of Roger Prynne. ... Roger Prynne changes physically over the course of the book. ... He is the Roger Prynne and changes to Roger Chillingworth to hide form the shame of being Hester's husband. ... Last of all Roger Chillingworth changes spiritually. ... Who made me so?!" ...
Who is to blame - Roger or America? ... The downside to so much freedom is the fact many may have to suffer in order for others to succeed, a situation shown in the events of "Roger & Me". ... Leftward - leaning filmmaker Michael Moore spends nearly three years documenting the demise of his hometown of Flint, Michigan, in his late 1980's documentary, "Roger & Me". "Roger & Me" surrounds the decision, made by the corporation General Motors, to close down 11 of their auto plants in the Flint area, and Moore's resultant pursuit to meet and talk to the man he deemed responsible for...
Roger Chillingworth, for example, had the flaw of seeking revenge. ... Ultimately Roger Chillingworth comes to represent true evil. ... "I must seek this man there is a sympathy that will make me conscious of him. ... This leads me to my next point; another affect on Chillingworth's life was how revenge completely consumed him. ... Who made me so?...
Roger and Me Analysis In this film, Michael Moore is satirizing corporate America, specifically the General Motors scenario in Flint, Michigan, during the late 1980's. ... This final sequence involved a scene with Roger Smith delivering a speech at a fancy Christmas party, followed by a scene with a family getting evicted from their home on Christmas Eve. ... The singing was also punctuated by curse words from the family directed at Roger Smith. ... On the other hand, Moore was able to emphasize those scenes even more by juxtaposing them with scenes of Roger Smith living in luxury....
