Roger & Me

[UkrainianGuy]

"Roger and Me" (1989) is document where Michael Moore report the slow but systematic fall of his hometown because of Roger Smith decision. Moore just want one thing bring Roger Smith to the town, so he can see with his own eyes the fallout. I wont spoiler, let me just say the one of last scene of this movie is very eerie and surreal.

This is very interesting document, when every reported thing is scary, curious and funny. My favorite moment is interview with women breeding rabbits (for pets, and for meat), but all of this encounters with Flint's peasants are at least informative. Yeah, it's a manipulation by Moore like always (I hate his Fahrenheit because of that), but here he selected and arranged the moment in very powerful way. The situation is real, and the horror of it its more then real, when we see this hopeless, not very bright people who where just because of one man decision put on the highway to hell.

And of course this movie is all about Moore. He is everywhere, non stop commenting, but the god-crusader from last scene of "Bowling for columbine" (Heston) is no where near here, and that's a good thing. This movie is just a well aimed shot, a punk-rock scream for a social injustice. This is art for document with power to stir up emotion and show people ugly things just the way they are: evictions, parades, idiotic city decision ignorance, foolishness, powerlessness its all powerful evil, and the last scene with very sad Christmas Carol its surreal.






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[NorthOf60]

This was a really good documentary. Maybe the auto industry should have listened to Moore when he did this documentary. They probably wouldn't be in as much trouble as they are now. Real smart auto industry. Lets fire everyone who makes and buys our cars and then send the jobs overseas and but still charge as much for the car so that a select few rich people can get richer and then expect those same people that we fired and ruined their lives to buy our cars still. Plus they would never tell their friends and family what we did to them, so those people will still buy our cars. To top it off lets not keep up with the Jones and have our cars be less fuel efficient and break as soon as the warrenty runs out. That way they will have to buy a new car from us sooner. These people will never thing of buying the better foreign car. :rofl

[gustavo77]

Michael Moore is a fat POS...he can go and kiss Larry King's old wrinkly ass...

[waderow]

moore is a spin doctor. he twists and contorts facts, to make them suit his need for money.

it is well documented that he will conduct an interview, and of the 45 minute interview, will use one 5 second sound byte to discredit the man.

I refuse to watch his neo-liberal crap anymore.

[gustavo77]

I refuse to watch his neo-liberal crap anymore.

A man after my own heart.