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
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),
group represented in a particular way?’, using Michael Moore’s documentary, ‘Bowling for Columbine’, discussed in part 2. I will be focussing on Moore’s representation of ‘white’ America as being filled with fear, using their history, influence of the media and his comparison to the Canadians. I will be looking at segments 52:30 – 1:01:13 as well as 1:16:43 – 1:20:09. Written Task 2 The documentary ‘Bowling for Columbine’ (2002), directed, produced, written and narrated by Michael Moore, serves