When G.M. Wrecked Flint

When G.M. Wrecked Flint

Roger and Me, a radical documentary — marketed as a comedy —about the devastation of auto workers in Flint, Michigan, has, to everyone’s amazement, become a sleeper. At this moment it’s making pretty big bucks. Why? Go ask. Documentaries, let alone radical documentaries, are for art houses—if any are left. Nevertheless this grim, if sardonically presented, picture is a strong attack on certain corporate practices, specifically those of General Motors, a colossus whose inept managers have done their share to decimate the American economy.

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