Controversy In The Film Roger & Me By Michael Moore
Tyler Broaddrick
Betsy Seymour
English 101-014
18 October 2010
“Roger & Me” In the 1980s General Motors started a big controversy by shutting down some of their plants and opening new ones in Mexico for cheaper labor. This caused the once popular and growing town of Flint to become nothing more than a deserted and run-down place. Michael Moore’s film Roger & Me is a very biased film concerning the citizens of Flint, Michigan that lost their jobs due to General Motors shutting plants down in the town. Moore set out to try to get an interview with Roger Smith, the CEO of General Motors, and show him the devastations that the plants closing down had on Flint. The way Moore documents and uses pathos throughout the movie grabs the attention of the viewer immediately, but in the end this hurt his credibility and made me not respect the film as much. One way Moore would grab the attention of the viewer was by the way he flipped from scene to scene. Moore incorporated this technique in his film to help prove his one sided …show more content…
In the movie Moore would interview a citizen of Flint and make the interview very sympathizing, but in the very next scene he would interview a man or woman of power in the General Motors Company and make them look like complete idiots. An example of this is one of the first scenes in the movie Moore was asking different citizens of Flint what they thought about Roger Smith and the plants closing. They all responded angrily and it made the viewer already have a vengeance towards Roger. In the very next scene he interviewed Tom Kay, a spokesman for Roger Smith. Moore took what Tom said in the interview and turned it around to make you dislike Roger Smith even more. It was almost as if he edited his interviews to only prove his point. This was done throughout the whole movie so it was hard not to believe that Roger Smith was the worst man in the
Betsy Seymour
English 101-014
18 October 2010
“Roger & Me” In the 1980s General Motors started a big controversy by shutting down some of their plants and opening new ones in Mexico for cheaper labor. This caused the once popular and growing town of Flint to become nothing more than a deserted and run-down place. Michael Moore’s film Roger & Me is a very biased film concerning the citizens of Flint, Michigan that lost their jobs due to General Motors shutting plants down in the town. Moore set out to try to get an interview with Roger Smith, the CEO of General Motors, and show him the devastations that the plants closing down had on Flint. The way Moore documents and uses pathos throughout the movie grabs the attention of the viewer immediately, but in the end this hurt his credibility and made me not respect the film as much. One way Moore would grab the attention of the viewer was by the way he flipped from scene to scene. Moore incorporated this technique in his film to help prove his one sided …show more content…
In the movie Moore would interview a citizen of Flint and make the interview very sympathizing, but in the very next scene he would interview a man or woman of power in the General Motors Company and make them look like complete idiots. An example of this is one of the first scenes in the movie Moore was asking different citizens of Flint what they thought about Roger Smith and the plants closing. They all responded angrily and it made the viewer already have a vengeance towards Roger. In the very next scene he interviewed Tom Kay, a spokesman for Roger Smith. Moore took what Tom said in the interview and turned it around to make you dislike Roger Smith even more. It was almost as if he edited his interviews to only prove his point. This was done throughout the whole movie so it was hard not to believe that Roger Smith was the worst man in the