Bowling For Columbine

Bowling For Columbine

Bowling for Columbine is an interactive documentary directed by Michael Moore (Fahrenheit 9/11, Where to Invade Next, Sicko). This film looks into the possible influences on the Columbine High School Massacre, which has brought Moore a lot of international recognition and given him the opportunity to attain an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. I will be discussing a societal reading of what could have caused the tragedy of Columbine back in 1999, which these ideas were brought up by Moore in this film. The main ideas this documentary explores is fear, racism and the accessibility to weapons in America.
One of the first ideas brought up in this film is gun accessibility. From how Moore portrayed this idea, it appears to be rather easy to get a hold on a firearm. A factor that could be influencing this matter is that in America, in their Bill of Rights, they have the second amendment. This allows ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...This idea was brought into perspective by Moore after discovering that the common excuses for gun violence such as violent movies and video games were unjustifiable due to the fact that other countries also consume these forms of entertainment and do not have the same high rate of violence in their country. Rebecca McCray, who writes for a website called takepart, says that, "this form of fear is built into white American's DNA, deeply rooted in destructive stereotypes of the black name as perpetual predator that harken back to slavery era revolts." These stereotypes have been the basis of the racism problem in America. Many of the white Americans who responded to a study in 2010 estimated a higher rate of crime committed by blacks by 20–30 percent when in reality 83 percent of white people are killed by white people. McCray also admits that 'numbers like that make it easier to understand why a white resident may call the police after a black resident in unfounded anticipation of violence to

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