Michael Moore

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This is part of a whole week dedicated to a genre in this case I am going to write about documentaries and to be more specific I am going to to focus of one of the most prominent and important filmmakers of this genre. His movies are controversial and at the same time they have raised more money than any other maker of this craft. He is may be an unorthodox director, but he knows how to get across the message he wants to display. This was the first movie this mogul of documentaries did. Filmmaker Michael Moore was born and raised in Flint, Michigan, a city dominated by one company, General Motors (GM), which is the largest corporation in the world and which was founded in Flint. The people of Flint were prosperous because of GM, and in turn …show more content…
Capitalism is changing and is only in favor of those who are in the top 10 % of the economy. They don't think about those at the end of the pyramid.

Michael Moore's first movie was something that was unusual for documentaries on those days he got an unorthodox approach to his films. He is to some degree the protagonist as he not only serves as narrator, but is the one conducting the interviews. His interaction and non-apologetic approach when he tries to get information to those who are portrayed as the bad guys in the movie is great and hilarious. He shows compassion for those who are affected and get around portraying a whole picture of the issue at hand.

Watch this movie if you want to know about the roots of this filmmaker. Also, it is a great movie about the outsourcing of jobs in the USA and how those jobs have devastated town around this country. This is a reality that has been reflected in countries around the world were towns build around one industry are set back into poverty when that industry leaves town in order to get more

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