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Roger & Me
The Movie
In the mid-1980s, amid billions in record profits and prosperity, the General Motors Corporation -- the richest corporation in the world -- decided to shut down eleven of their factories and ship much of their manufacturing operations to
Documentary filmmaker and author (or, according to many neo-conservatives, The Most Un-American Person To Walk The Planet Now That The Rosenbergs Are Dead) Michael Moore is a Flint native, whose family worked for GM for decades. With GM's closings of the
The DVD
Video:
Roger & Me was shot with 16mm film and handheld cameras, so no amount of Hollywood wizardry is going to make the film look as dazzling as, say, Attack of the Clones. The film, which is presented in its original full-frame aspect ratio, does look as clean and solid as I've ever seen it. Off the bat, there is a noticeable amount of film grain evident throughout the transfer, which is to be expected. Color levels are reasonably if slightly muted. Compression noise and pixelation artifacts were not to be found, and while I did not notice any edge-enhancement I did spot some shimmering around various light sources. Contrasts were reasonable. Black levels are middling while shadow detail is slightly off. Overall, this is fine representation of what is admittedly limited source material.
Audio:
The audio is presented in Dolby Digital 1.0. The monaural soundtrack is fair, with a reasonable representation of the film's original soundtrack. Dialog is well presented and finely delivered, with little distortion or harshness. Again, with limited source material one cannot expect a pristine treatment, but the movie generally sounds fine.
Extras:
Michael Moore provides a feature-length Audio Commentary, recorded "in hiding" within his "bunker complex" a few months after his infamous 2003 Oscar speech.
The film's theatrical Trailer is also included.
Final Thoughts
Roger & Me electrified audiences when it was released back in 1989. Before Michael Moore became "MICHAEL MOORE!!!", he was a left-leaning journalist who had the stones to doggedly go after and attempt to interview the CEO of the corporation which devastated his hometown. Since then, Moore has gone on to a variety of different projects, from the insanely entertaining television shows TV Nation and The Awful Truth to further documentaries such as The Big One and the Oscar-winning Bowling For Columbine, as well as penning the best-selling books Downsize This! and Stupid White Men. Roger & Me is the most personal of
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