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.