... shots of a parade used while Moore talks about growing up in Flint. Moore also uses clips from the nightly news when discussing the high crime rate of Flint. The substance of Moore's documentary is made up of interactive interviews. On page fourty-four, Nichols writes of the Interactive Mode: " ... , or provocateur in relation to the social actors recruited to the film are far greater than the observational mode would suggest." 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 .....

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... 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 ... they were showing some glimmer of hope with the new jobs that had sprung up in the aftermath of the lay-offs. The new jail was built because the crime rate had risen. One of the guards was a displaced autoworker and he appeared pleased with ...

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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. The film exposes how large corporations are always ... hiring more. Conversely, the company should look at the societal consequences of destroying so many jobs in one area. Flint witnessed extreme unemployment rates, which eventually led to a high crime rate as people stole and fought for basic needs, such as clothing and food. The failures and hardships caused by the GM corporate decision are shown with vivid detail. Moore ma...

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Roger & Me by Michael Moore is a documentary that set a new standard and a fresh outlook for a whole genre of films. He is the innovator of keeping the camera rolling style. Capturing every moment, ... tree in the street. There is a moment where you feel all hatred for Roger Smith and GM. He ruined thousands of life's to save millions of dollars. If I had to rate this documentary, it was a solid A-. Interesting yet informative but the movie seemed too entertaining than trying to show what actually happened in Flint. He did a great job in his style ... ...

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In Michael Moore's film Roger and Me GM's plan was to close eleven factories in the United States and open eleven in Mexico, and pay the workers lower wages. Then they were going to use the money ... garbage collection. Also many people in Flint were being evicted from their homes because they could not afford to pay their rent. In addition Flint had the highest violent crime rate in the nation and became the unemployment capital of the United States. To deal with the effect GM's plan had on them the people of Flint developed several coping strategies ... ...

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... America. Questions such as, what does the media have to do with crimes? Why Americans are more concerned with violence than Canada and why is the crime rate of Americans so much higher? Why do 11,000 people die in America from gun violence each year? These are the questions Moore and his film crew set ... theory of ethnic diversity by showing that Canada, which has very diverse cities of its own, has an amazingly low gun related murder rate. Moore had visited Canada to interview people on why the crime rate is so low there and so high in America. First he asked a group of teenagers who s...

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... that America is not a great place after all. The film constantly bombards you with true facts, and than more facts about the American history. It shocked me that we start the war and than try to make peace. For example: America gave weapons of mass destruction to Iraq, and now we are at a ... changed my life, but it certainly changed a small part of my life. I now better understand the behavior of the American community. It really helped me familiarize and showed me a picture, a view from the victim's judgment. My favorite part in the film was when Michael Moore is interviewing James Ni...

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... violence in the context of the tragedy at Columbine High School. Moore looks at many aspects of American society in the hunt for the reasons why America has such a high rate of gun-related homicides in comparison with the rest of the world. Is it because Americans have easy access to guns? Is it because the US government prefers to settle ... in any other country until I saw the movie. I discovered that it is because of fear Americans feel in their lives. As a non-White; this was a sort of culture shock to me. The Japanese don't feel as much fear toward to their own people so there is n...

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