Michael Moore establishes himself as a director that wants to please the public. In all his films he tries to get a message across so that people are given a deeper understanding of whatever he wants them to. Moore mainly creates documentaries that retell history in a way to represent the less fortunate and those that suffer. Roger & Me is a clear example of how a particular story can be put together and edited to show an image of Flint, MI. The prime mover involves the closing of General Motors plants throughout Flint, and the film tries to tell the story from the worker's point of view. Moore combines the basic facts given to him along with his personal experiences throughout making the film to make a story with a beginning, middle, and end. By carefully selecting a few representative scenes and showing the relationships they create, Roger & Me can be seen as a documentary loosely based on history and mainly focused on how Michael Moore viewed the depression of Flint, MI due to the closing of GM factories.
             When telling a story, the best place to start is the beginning which is exactly what Moore does in the film. The first few opening sequences are based on a small part of the history of the Moore family, and then it moves onto GM and the way they put Flint on the map. Encompassing various shots of the production lines of GM and many of the workers going to work, Pat Boone and other celebrities are shown supporting the factory and what it's done for America. There are huge parades and ceremonies and "Every day was a great day," as Moore comments during the events. This series of events establishes the history of GM in Flint, and the audience sees through Moore's eyes how Flint was to him. The way he interprets history could be different from that of an actual historian, but that is taken into account as the audience is only meant to relate to the happiness shown as Flint is only complete with G...