Many Americans today believe that everyone in the job industry is treated the same. However, imagine doing something enjoyable for a good chunk of life, and then having it thrown out the door in an instant. That's what the truly American people who have spent years of hard labor in this short documentary have felt. In the documentary The Last Truck Julie Reichert and Steven Bognar reveal to us through the potent film the grim account of the closing of a GM plant and how it generates long lasting memories in our minds due to its originality and message; however, it undoubtedly has spurts of repetitiveness and an apathetic tone.
Foremost, the documentary presents a criteria that many movies fail to bring to the show - originality, which leaves the audience interested in the topic at hand. Now, there aren't many truck movies out there on the market and there never really was to what memory could recall. I really felt like the creativity the directors put into making this film was shown throughout the story. One of the great thing the film did was successfully was weaving in logos. This was employed throughout many facts and statistics that the movie gave us. An example could be how the GM plant opened in 1981, how it received so many recognitions throughout the company and yet just 27 years later it was officially closed on December 23, 2008. The aftershock of the closing of such a large plant, which of course runs the local economy, led to the loss of ten thousand jobs including those who didn't even work at the plant. This effective use of logos and uniqueness makes the film powerful and forces us consider the facts concerning the conclusion of the documentary.
[In addition, the theme that is portrayed is that blue collar workers can easily be swatted aside and left to rot, even as life moves on. This reinforced message is successful at depicting to the audience it's true purpose through its compelling appeal to pathos and ethos.