The Importance of Social Ranking in Michael Moore"s Roger and Me
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Michael Moore's film, Roger and Me is about the closing of several General Motors plants in Flint, Michigan and the effects that the situation imposes on Flint's citizens. Throughout the movie, Moore, the director and narrator, tries to reach Roger Smith, chairman of GM, to let him understand Flint's suffering and devastation. Flint, after all, is the birthplace of General Motors. The citizens therefore feel that Roger Smith owes it to Flint to keep the plants alive. The story begins as an autobiographical film about Michael Moore. It explains how growing up in Flint, Moore never realized the significance of...
people who lost their jobs and portrays their individual powerlessness. They are mainly seen as a group of workers that is brought down by the decisions of an extremely dominant individual, Roger Smith. Notwithstanding the ex-workers of GM's affiliation with what is known as the United Autoworkers Union, they remain simply a meaningless coalition of unemployed "nonentities" who strongly rely on one person's authority. Through the use of point of view, overall tone, and important figures, Moore's film exemplifies his disagreement with the natural tendency for society to be headed by a few "talking heads" who call themselves leaders.

people who lost their jobs and portrays their individual powerlessness. They are mainly seen as a group of workers that is brought down by the decisions of an extremely dominant individual, Roger Smith. Notwithstanding the ex-workers of GM's affiliation with what is known as the United Autoworkers Union, they remain simply a meaningless coalition of unemployed "nonentities" who strongly rely on one person's authority. Through the use of point of view, overall tone, and important figures, Moore's film exemplifies his disagreement with the natural tendency for society to be headed by a few "talking heads" who call themselves leaders.
In the Philadelphia Museum of Art are five paintings by Gustave Courbet; of all of these I found Reclining Nude 1868, Oil on canvas, The Louis & Stern Collection, 63-81-20 the most interesting. It depicts a nude woman lying on the beach beneath a billowing canopy. A dark, but tranquil...
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"Trifles make perfections, and perfection is no trifle," Michelangelo once stated. He is one of the greatest artists of all time and is unmatched by any other. Michelangelo is the creator of works of sublime beauty that express the full breadth of human condition. Yet, he was caught between conflicting...
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In the film "Cinema Paradiso", Toto, the main character, is a lost child without a father to provide a male role model. The story begins after Toto is informed of the death of his dearest friend, Alfredo. At this point, Toto is a mature man and a successful film director,...
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Never before have I encountered more intriguing works of art than those done by Andy Warhol. I have been curious about his life ever since I saw his work in Milwaukee. I saw his famous work of the Campbell"s Soup Can. By viewing this, one can tell he is not...
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Assyrian Art The reliefs from the palace of King Assurnasirpal II at Nimrud play an important role in portraying the power and importance of the Assyrian king. These reliefs are similar to other Assyrian reliefs in terms of their purpose; however, there is a contrast in the methods used to...
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