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 Michael
Moore is one of the few documentary filmmakers who is a "star" in
his own right. Originally an essayist for such counterculture publications
as Mother Jones, Moore carried over his establishment-bashing irreverence
to films. His first feature-length documentary, 1989's Roger and Me,
is at base a melancholy study of the devastating effect that the loss
of the General Motors factory had on the citizens of Flint, MI. But
where others might wallow in pathos or overwhelm the audience with
fluent tract, Moore chooses to emphasize the ironic humor in the situation;
the film's throughline is Moore's cheerful but vain efforts to commiserate
with GM chairman Roger Smith. In a notorious MPAA decision, Roger and
Me received an "R" rating due to graphic scenes of one Flint
entrepreneur skinning rabbits and selling their meat (this episode
led to a follow up documentary, 1992's Pets or Meat: Return to Flint).
Moore's special brand of iconoclasm also pervaded his 1994 TV series
TV Nation, a satirical spin on television reality shows wherein the
humor grew from "the Truth" rather than any of Moore's insouciant
exaggerations. Thus far, Michael Moore's desire to make a non-documentary
has yielded only the disappointing political satire Canadian Bacon
which lay on the shelf for nearly two years before its release in 1995. |
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