Siskel & Ebert Review Roger & Me

[lame54]

You’ve got to figure fans of Julie Andrews and Quentin Tarantino will celebrate with a spoonful of sugar and a Royale with cheese now that polar opposites Mary Poppins and Pulp Fiction have been selected for the National Film Registry.

Roger & Me (1989), Michael Moore’s comically subversively political film about the effects of General Motors plant closings in his hometown of Flint, Mich., also joins the exclusive club, one of four documentaries making the cut.

Roger & Me - Full Movie
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[shenmue]

1. Awesome film

I have seen it several times, and seen Mr. Moore speak in public two times. He is amazing.

[Leith]

2. Excellent Film

I'm from Flint and I lived there when this movie was being filmed. It was spot on.

In the years since, several people have tried to argue and debate with me against it, but they operated from half truths and misconceptions. One person even tried to tell me that he was an expert on Flint and General Motors because he did a paper in college about the situation.

And I used to wait on Deputy Fred when I worked as a bank teller. Great guy.

[mountain grammy]

3. Great film, and watching Siskel and Ebert again was great! I miss them.

[Ace Acme]

4. Magnificent!

Boy, Flint sure was the canary in the coal mine, wasn't it?

When "Roger and Me" was in the theaters, I had no interest. I figured that any guy who would write, direct, star in, and
produce his own movie had to be a first class egotist. Well OK, sure he's an egotist. That doesn't stop this from being a
great film. The ego is needed to provide the narrative glue--and mostly he just stands back and humbly lets people be
themselves.

I've seen "Capitalism" and "Columbine" and "Fahrenheit" since then. "Fahrenheit 9/11" changed my life. I asked myself "How
come none of this was reported on NPR?" and started to investigate for myself.

If I'd seen "Roger and Me" back in the day, I'd like to think it would have changed my life then.