Moore's Irony

In Roger and Me, Michael Moore goes about making his film behind the theory of irony completely. Basically, irony is using words or scenes to convey the opposite meaning of the actual literal meaning. An example of this would be to say what a glorious day we have outside, when it is pouring down rain. To some, it is poking fun at a situation and showing what is really happening and what should. Moore starts out by giving his childhood up bringing then quickly going downhill from there the whole movie by showing how bad it really does get. You see scene from back in the fifties and the likes there of with thousands of people it seems, massive parades, and money pouring into the local economy through the help of all the massive GM plants located there. It really makes you sad to see how bad it really has become in that town. Moore talks about how almost all of his family had worked in some way shape or form at the General Motors plants there in town, but Moore himself didn’t want to do that when he grew up. So in a sense, Moore is irony to his family because they have done all this work for the company, then their son becomes a documentary film maker doing a film on the plants closing down for good and then town collapsing on itself. I’m sure they never would have thought they would see the day. Later in the movie, Moore goes to polo game that one of the founding families has every year in Flint. They hire people from the town to be human statues who have lost their jobs but the irony is when Moore talks to the executives about the problem, the people who are affected, and the workers turned statues, cannot say anything at all.