Overview
Roger and Me (1989)
Michael Moore demands answers when General Motors suddenly closes the doors of all its auto plants in Flint, Michigan, the city where he grew up. With over 30,000 people out of work, Flint is economically devastated, and Moore aims to track down General Motors CEO Roger Smith to make him answer for his actions. Worth revisiting given Flint’s continued human rights violations, the documentary opens the category of Performative Documentary where documentary filmmakers engage the subject in a deeply personal manner to create subjective arguments about an issue.
