How Michael Moore Makes His Arguments in Bowling for...

How Michael Moore Makes His Arguments in Bowling for...

How Michael Moore Makes His Arguments in Bowling for Columbine



Michael Moore in his latest documentary, 'Bowling for Columbine', has aimed his camera directly between the eyes of our American culture. Using the school shootings of 1999 in Columbine and Flint as a starting point, Moore documents the fear and hypocrisy that has come to define this American culture. I'm going to avoid discussion of the specific material presented in this moving film; I feel no need to reinvent the wheel, it would only come out square. Personally, I have never been witness to a more powerful, more heartfelt documentary. Michael Moore, a Flint, MI native, is obviously shaken, and incensed by these shootings. In the role ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...I've come down off that high. If everyone in America saw this movie, we'd probably go home to the same frightened, gun laden neighborhoods. But self awareness that 'Bowling for Columbine' can provide would be a good first step for many of us.



Likely to be most thought–provoking film of the year, Bowling For Columbine is Michael Moore's big, heartfelt, funny, angry, messy exploration of guns and violence in U.S. culture. The question posed is this: Why do we as Americans shoot and kill over 11,000 people on average each year? What causes the Columbines? What causes innocent bystanders? Why don't other countries have these problems, even ones with lots of guns, or a violent national history? What makes us so insanely special?



Moore's savviest choice is to avoid placing blame for American gun violence on easy targets. Indeed, he seems less interested in placing blame than in burrowing in to find the reasons behind the problems, to peel back the curtain and take a long hard look at the wizard (In the film's climax, Moore interviews NRA chieftain Chuck Heston. Heston was always a bold actor, and here he bravely chooses to talk to Moore void of all logic, proving that utter cluelessness can serve evil just as well as malice can.)



Columbine makes a cogent argument we don't so much have a gun culture as we have a fear culture – a fear both sensationalistic and racial in

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