Roger & Me

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Summary: Roger and Me
Review: The movie Roger and Me was about a man that did what he needed to in order to make money. This, naturally, could be viewed in different ways. The story was about a GM factory owner who took the necessary occurrences to get more money. In Flint, Michigan, where this takes place, there was not too much to do, and the town prospered on this one GM factory. The true story showed how, after the factory was shut down, the citizens had nothing to do. The town needed money, so people took jobs as "color consultants," or rabbit skinners. Their way of life decreased rapidly. Families could not pay their bills, and were evicted; children where left hungry; people were desperate. Although the state tried to help, people just didn't want to vacation in Flint. I'm not sure if what Roger Smith did (shutting down the factory) was right or not, but I think that he should have given the workers a notice. The Michael Moore video took the citizens sides, but it showed the peoples desperation.

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Summary: see this movie asap
Review: I watched this movie in class. I thought it was vary interesting and informative. I also would recomend this movie to just about any one. I Found Moore's birttely sarcastic and ironic humer vary refreshing. And the way he turned the rich people of the movie into hateable people was the icing on the cake. I think that every person should watch this movie becuase it shows the horrible effect of one person's greed.

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Summary: Down with Roger Smith
Review: I thought this documentary was very insightful and interesting. The events in Flint were portrayed in a creative manner that made this movie different from other boring documentaries. Though I found Michael Moore to be rather annoying and immature, I do have to say that his film was well-thought out and put together. It was informative and gave an outsider of Flint an idea of how hard-hit the city was by the shut-down of the GM factories. It started off by giving a brief overview of the history of the city and its relationship with the GM company. People had worked there practically their whole lives. Generations of families had devoted themselves to the company. Flint flourished with the jobs that the factories offered. But one day, Roger Smith took that all away for apparently no reason. It was clear that GM wasn't losing any money by having factories in Flint. It was especially sad due to the fact that the GM company was born there! Roger Smith helped build up a city with aspirations and prosperity, and then tore it all down. Moore effectively compells the viewer to be overwraught with sympathy and pity for the people who were laid off with no idea what to do. I watched as Moore showed me a family being evicted from their home on Christmas Eve with no where to go. I saw a crazy lady sink as low as killing little bunnies to sell as meat. Flint was struck with panic as it fell from economic stability to wallowing in poverty. The place came close to being deserted. As the movie draws to a close, Moore left the viewer with a shot of a factory being torn down. It was the epitome of what had happened to Flint, and the feeling was depressing. I couldn't help but resent Roger Smith and what he had done to those poor people and the city that once was vibrant with life.

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Summary: Roger and Me
Review: My SSPP class watch the film "Roger and Me" by Michael Moore. The film was about Michael Moore's hometown in Flint, Michigan. Flint,Michigan was home to GM motors until the president of GM motors, Roger Smith, decided to close down the company in Flint and reopen the company in a place like Mexico, where he could get away with paying the workers as little as possible. After the company is closed in Flint, the town goes to hell. The rat population grows higher than the human population in Flint and the crime rate becomes the highest in the United States. Families have their homes evicted on Christmas Eve and a woman sells rabbits as pets or meat to make a living. In one scene, Moore shows the woman killing a rabbit and skinning it for meat. It interviews a woman who seems to go insane because she mix up her colors (she is not an autumn she is a spring!) Micheal Moore shows his home town after the closing of the company in a serious but yet comical matter. He spends three years trying to meet Roger Smith, he goes to all his clubs and trys to get Roger Smith's reaction about people having their homes envicted on Christmas (What a present!). This film shows what kind of man Roger Smith is and how little he cares about the workers of Flint, Michigan.

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Summary: Roger & Me reviewed
Review: This film about the effects of capitalism on Flint, Michigan and the tragedies that its people must endure is a very interesting and insightful look at modern economics in America. Michael Moore, although he comes off as naive and childish at times, generally manages to paint poignant picture of Flint in its economic depression. Moore travels across the country in search of the CEO of GM, Roger Smith, in hopes of persuading him to come back to Flint to see the effects f his greed. Along the way, Moore witnesses the extremes of human nature - one woman stoops as low as to sell her rabbits as "pets or meat." Although Moore doesn't succeed in bringing Smith to Flint, he does succeed in affecting his audience as he contrasts the luxury life of Roger Smith with the poverty in Flint. The film is depressing to say the least but very much worth watching.

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Summary: What a great movie
Review: Roger & Me protrayed the horrible effects of how a well known and prospering company can be shut down, and the horrible outcome for the citizens in the town. The well known company of GM was born and created in Flint, Michigan. After many years of large profits, a GM chairman Roger Smith, decides to shut down the Flint company. As the last car went down the assembly line, people releized that their lives were changed for the worst. In about 3 years a wicked lot of Flint citizens were thrown out of their homes and moved away from Flint. At one point, the city was in such horrible slums, that the rat population was greater than the human population. This documentary at some points was extremely annoying, but funny so it was able to keep viewers interested. The movie shows how a great living area can turn into a horrible slum, just because of one company closing. One thing can affect everyone, either for the best, or the worst.

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Summary: Wicky's perspective on Roger & Me
Review: Wicky feels that Roger & Me was a cleverfful and insightful view of the issues facing Flint, Michigan. Mike Moore produced a quality piece of work when he produced this documentary. It does an excellent job portraying how the community is dealing with being abbandoned by GM, and Roger Smith. The communtiy has had its economy completely devastated by the company's move. Mr. Moore spends the entire movie chasing Roger Smith and trying to get answers about his decision. For most of the movie his attempts are thwarted until the very end. He gets to meet Roger Smith face to face, but his invitation to come to Flint is denied. During the movie the audience is compelled to feel sorry for the members of the Flint community. Mr. Moore shows everything from people being evicted from their home on Christmas to a live rabbit being killed and skinned. The audience has no other choice but to feel sorry for the communtiy.

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Summary: Roger and Me
Review: I thought that Roger and Me had some very good points to make about American society. The fact that Roger Smith didn't mind laying off all those jobs is really sad. However while the message in this movie is very good I often found myself losing the point of the movie and just becoming anoyed with Michael Moore's rude and annoying attitude wich was prevalent throught out this whole movie.

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Summary: ...an interesting film...
Review: I liked this film, it kept you interested through the whole movie. What I really enjoyed was the way he used humor in the film, and that made it seem even more depressing. The picture started out with how many people worked at GM co. and how much the city of Flint depended on this co. to survive. Through the rest of the movie things get worse for everyone. People are getting kicked out of there homes left and right, and even on Christmas Eve, the same time Roger Smith is giving his Christmas Speech on tv. A few jobs open up in the area, like a Taco Bell, but that was to difficult for the people of Flint to make the transition. Then there was the lady who sold rabbits, and rabbit meat, that was interesting to say the least. I think that my favorite part of the film is when Moore goes to the shareholder meeting for GM co. and Smith totally ignored him. Moore was right in front of him, telling him that he had a question, just one and Smith pretended that he did not even see that he was there. This is a good documentary if you want learn about how fast a city or a town can rise and fall just because on one co. .

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Summary: Michael Moore's Roger & Me
Review: The documentary, Roger & Me, is a sarcastic indie film about the once thriving Flint, Michgan the film makes you think that what Roger Smith did was wrong, and he brought a thriving city down to a poverty ridden town, where violence is a common thing. The city deputy sheriff spends his day evicting people who can no longer pay their rent. Factories allover city shut down and people lose their jobs. Many turn to a life of violence, some try to get a new job at the local Taco Bell, or the lint roller factory. Flint, Michgan had become a city where families were renting U-Haul's and getting out as fast as you can. Michael Moore takes his small camera crew to clubs that Roger Smith belongs to, he goes in search of the man he believes ruined his hometown. He talks to people who used to work at the GM factories and what they do to get money. He talk to one woman who sells her rabbits as either pets or as meat, she butchers them herself in a very graphic segment in the film. The documentary shows the bad parts of the city. Flint depended on the factories and companies to keep people in the town, when they left, they took with them tens of thousands of jobs.