David H. Dallas
PS 302: Political Science & Film
Clarion University of PA
Essay #2
Documentaries, Feature Films and Labor Struggles;
Comparing Roger and Me and American Dream
June 2, 2003
(a)What happened to Flint, Michigan and Austin, Minnesota in the 1980s?
Flint, Michigan, was the birthplace of superior general Motors. In the early 1980s, GM announced that they were closing xi of their production facilities. GM would then be opening the homogeneous number of facilities in Mexico. Michael Moore, whose family members were life long GM employees, take a firm stand that this put over 30,000 workers on the unemployment line but the tangible figure was closer to 5,000.
Moore spotlights the plight of the workers and the indifference of GMs management in a darkly humorous documentary called Roger and Me. Throughout the film, Moore and his camera crew stalk the GM Chairman from GM headquarters, to wellness clubs, hotels and shareholders meetings, ostensibly to invite him to Flint, Michigan to see the results of the plant closings. Moore neer does gain access to Moore and has to settle for GM spokesperson, Thomas Kay.
Moore brings in concert a collage of the Flint area, contrasting the activities of the elite with the adversity of the poor. The camera cuts from exclusive garden parties to scenes of unemployed workers organism evicted from their homes.
especially effective was the scene of GMs Christmas Program for its executives resplendent with formally wrapped choir members and lavish decorations. GM Chairman Roger Smith reads a Dickenss passage, remarking how Christmas is a charitable, forgiving time, as Moore cuts to scenes of an ex GM employee and family being evicted from their home.
Roger and Me contains ample evidence of the thoughtlessness of the upper class society. A group of women golfers says that most of the unemployed like being...
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