After GM closed and layed off thousands of Flint Residents the poeple of Flint built a multi-million dollar mall with an indoor ferris wheel, as well as a Luxury Hyatt hotel that was suppose to attrack more tourists. The people of this town really tried to make it better, by trying to bring in more money.
One things that stood out to me was that when they opened the new jail. The people that still had money left paid one hundred dollars to stay the night in a jail cell, get their finger prints, and their mug shot taken, all that were "souvenirs" to take home. This was an example of logos because they were helping the community by contributing to the poor city of Flint. They were willing to spend the night in a cold, hard cell for the price of one hundred dollars.
One woman killed and sold rabbits to stay alive and make what money she could for being unemployed. She managed to slide by while other were being evicted and thrown on the streets to fend for themselves. People were just doing their job while others were being fired. In certain situations you have to do what is best for you and your family, whether that is killing and selling rabbits or spending the night in jail for fun.
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I thought the scene showing the woman clubbing the rabbit over the head was horrible. I thought it was really sad that she had to resort to killing bunnies for their meat and selling it to make some extra money. Don't you think she could have found some other way to make some extra cash? Do you think it was appropriate that Michael showed her killing the bunny in the documentary?
I agree with lafonda about Michael showing her kill the bunny and it would of been fine without that scene. However, seeing some of his other documentarys I believe he put this in to show how far people would go to make some extra cash. It happened and Michael wants people to be aware of what is really going on in the world around us.
I agree with Courtney that Moore placed the scene of the lady killing the rabbit because he was portraying the extreme that people are going to do.Also in way it is giving off some Pathos by doing those sort of things. And i liked how you described that even when people may have low moral and not that much money, they eventually come together and help one another out.
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