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    Michael Moore was born on April 23rd 1954. He’s an American film maker, author journalist and a liberal political activist, who has directed and produced four of the eight highest grossing documentaries of all time; he was also named by the Time Magazine in 2005 like one of the world’s “Hundred most influential people”. Moore was born in Flint, Michigan, but he was raised in Davison’s suburbs, his childhood was tainted by the use of guns; he used to play like any other boy with toy guns, which were

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    Athens Greece to the United States there are Agitators that had similar motivations and ways of achieving them. An example would be philosopher Socrates and filmmaker Michael Moore. Despite some small differences in approach, these two have many significant similarities as Agitators. The most obvious similarity between Socrates and Moore is that they are agitators, but it’s more than them just advocating social and political change, it 's the methods in which they did so that were so similar. Both of

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    Sicko is a documentary film directed by Michael Moore with a focus and deep discussion on American health care system, released in the year 2007. Michael Moore is an experienced documentary filmmaker whose Fahrenheit 9/11 is revered as among top 10 documentary films by The Guardian. He, together with most of his films, struggles to talk about essential topics in American society. In the film Sicko, it consisted of a series of interviews of people with different identities: patients, doctors, insurance

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    who still don't murder each other nearly as frequently. In the end, Moore asks a lot of questions about the nature of American society, and while he doesn't always give us answers, he does conclude that the United States is a nation that is filled with both too many guns and way too much fear (Weschler, 2003). In the Bowling for Columbine documentary has been partly dramatized in regard to some of the events in order to cause an effect to the viewer and some have even gone as far as reshooting

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    Roger And Me

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    Post-Industrialization: an attack on the individual “Roger & Me” (1989) by the famous activist documentary film maker Michael Moore explores the themes of post–industrialism in his home town of Flint, Michigan while trying to track down Roger Smith the GM of General Motors who began shutting down Flint auto plants in 1985, eliminating over 30,000 jobs. Within the post-industrial theme, the film explores several key ideas that tie neatly into the concept of “the attack on the individual.” The key

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    Documentary Response | English Communications | Line 1
Bowling For Columbine Review | Madeline Clarke A compelling documentary about the controversial issues of gun culture, violence, war and the media’s role in promoting fear within communities, Michael Moore’s Bowling For Columbine presents a range of modern day issues within American society. By merging together a variety of different film techniques within news reports, statistics, ironic and tense stunts and interviews, the documentary investigates

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    literary and visual devices in the documentary Bowling for Columbine and a news article about extra judicial killings entitled ‘We cannot arrest our ways out of this drug problem’. The 2002 documentary was written, produced, directed and narrated by Michael Moore. It is about an mass shooting In Littleton, Colorado’s Columbine High School, which occurred on April 20, 1999. Students named Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris made use of guns, knives and multitude of bombs to attack the peaceful state in which the

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    Michael Moore states in his film that we are now living in sick times, a time where financial profit is more important than human lives. That is not true although in the 1950s were “Pleasantville” is set. It is an Idyllic time where structure, laws and family values are widespread throughout the land; it is more highlighted to be golden age as we are subjected to David and Jennifer’s modern world, a world very similar to our own where the college counsellor shatters dreams, the health teachers labels

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    Roger And Me Analysis

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    I. Introduction Roger and Me is a documentary from 1989 by Michael Moore about the deindustrialization of American society. The documentary uses Flint, Michigan, the world’s headquarters of General Motors, as a case study for deindustrialization. In addition to, showing how the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Deindustrialization, which is the decline in industrial activity such as manufacturing in a region, has negative economic and social consequences. As we see in Moore’s documentary,

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    Bush administration handled it. Many believed Moore had an agenda against President George W. Bush while making the film and edited the movie to show the audience what he wanted them to see. The opening lines from Moore in the film are, “We worked hard on creating a work of cinema that would move people not just politically but on an emotional and visceral level. I hope we have made a contribution to this art form we love so much.” Unfortunately for Moore, debate sparked over Moore’s true intentions

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