Bowling for Columbine The documentary Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore’s examines the dangerous and unique gun culture and the violence which follows because of this culture in the land of the free and the brave. In order to provide the viewers an insight into how tragedies like the infamous Columbine shooting are happing and further telling, why the United States possesses an enormously higher rate of gun-related problems than any other first world country in the world. Among the several
Jeremy D. Moore English 103/Dr. Torke September 16, 2015 Final Paper A Deep Look into Michael Moore’s Film Bowling for Columbine A documentary film from Michael Moore named Bowling for Columbine was released in 2002. He both wrote and directed this film. The documentary was in response to the brutal killings done in Littleton, Colorado by two senior students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. These two students killed 12 students, one teacher, and injured 21 others. The two gunmen later committed
A gun, like almost every object, has the power to kill. Yet the gun is merely the instrument of death and destruction, only human beings are capable of pulling the trigger. Michael Moore is an inspirational documentarian that created Bowling for Columbine (2002) a contentious documentary that comments on the violence surrounding school shootings and gun laws that devastated America. Documentaries do not simply record the truth in a purely neutral, objectively disinterest manner” (Nowlan R 2010),