Complement the exciting themes and stories of Adam Nayman's Curious Minds series on A Brief History of Satire with this screening.
Michael Moore triumphantly burst upon the American moviemaking scene in 1989 with Roger & Me, a hilarious, penetrating forerunner of the independent film movement. Moore doggedly and hilariously tried to do what every working stiff dreams of: talk to the man at the top. His efforts to meet General Motors Chairman Roger Smith and persuade him to visit Flint, Michigan frame a film that uses humour to overwhelming effect. While slyly lampooning corporate America, Roger & Me exposes the devastating first stirrings of the economic tsunami that swallowed Flint, Detroit, and all of southeastern Michigan, and set the stage for Moore's stubbornly satirical approach to getting at the truth that would come to define his filmmaking.
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