Bowling for Columbine: A Narrow View of a Complicated Story The Biased viewpoint of Michael Moore tears viewers away from the actual problem‚ and perhaps even the film’s intended message itself… Alexi Heazle The idea of a documentary being an artistic or even personalised expression of a director is long gone‚ or so it seems in recent times. In Michael Moore’s latest documentary‚ Bowling for Columbine‚ he attempts to get across to viewers his‚ and essentially only his point of view
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used to argue an idea. In the movie‚ "Bowling for Columbine‚" Michael Moore is a genius when it comes to his editing choices concerning Charlton Heston and the NRA. Using a few well placed insert shots Moore is able to bring the attention away from Heston long enough to change around parts of his speech and shorten dialogues. By means of crosscuts he is able to make it seem as if though Heston is talking insensitively to the weeping children of Columbine. All of this is an attempt to incriminate Heston
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example of deviant behavior. These two children embarked on murder massacre‚ killing twelve students and one teacher‚ injuring twenty-one others. The pair then committed suicide after their devilish act. The children were both bullied daily at school. One friend of the deviant duo said “Jocks threw human fetus at them”. The two boys were a part of dark group called the “Trench coat Mafia”. There were many warning signs before this massacre took place. The boys made home videos known as the Basement Tapes
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Virginia Tech Massacre On April 16th‚ 2007 on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg‚ Virginia‚ America’s deadliest random act of violence occurred. Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed thirty-two people and wounded 15 others. After the attacks he later shot and killed himself which makes the total amount of deaths thirty-three people. This massacre is the most deadly shooting by a single gunman in United States history. Students were getting ready to go to class just like any other day. However
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Michael Moore’s ‘Bowling for Columbine’‚ the film which won an Oscar for best documentary‚ is not in fact a documentary‚ but rather more of a persuasive essay in film format. The widely accepted definition of ‘documentary’ is a film emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings‚ insertion of fictional matter‚ and minimal editting‚ and ‘Bowling for Columbine’ does not show any of these characteristics. Instead of presenting a neutral view of the issues‚ it is
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shootings in the primary and elementary schools in the United States‚ one is confronted with some brutal realities. Some of the examples include West Paducah (Kentucky) in December 1997‚ Jonesboro (Arkansas) in March 1998‚ Springfield (Oregon) in May 1998‚ and Littleton (Colorado) in April 1999. All these incidents have one thing in common. School aged children who were also avid video game players‚ were at the center of those incidents. More recent violent crime at school which we can link video games‚ includes
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a new day as many teens got ready for school. The hallways filled with the hundreds of students that attended school that day. It was like any other day; however‚ this was not the case as Columbine High School would end up being the site of a school shooting that would haunt the nation for years to come. Bowling for Columbine‚ is a documentary by Michael Moore covering the events that transpired at Columbine High School. After viewing Bowling for Columbine‚ I was shocked. Moore’s video examines
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The use of satire used by Michael Moore in his docudrama “Bowling for Columbine” helps the audience engage on the concept of tackling serious issues like the Columbine massacre and the influences to enlighten or mirror the feelings of how and what society has on the thoughts of a particular environment. Moore uses a variety of technique‚ ranging from exaggeration‚ irony‚ parody and juxtaposition to reveal various answers to questions raised by the society involving the use of guns and to represent
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a film that provides a factual record or report. But how factual is a documentary‚ really? This presentation aims to investigate the persuasive devices used in Bowling For Columbine. This is a documentary by well known director Michael Moore‚ which uses a range of filming techniques to persuade the audience that the Columbine shootings were a result of so much fear‚ greed and consumerism in America. This is his extremely biased idea of the truth. In Michael Moore’s exposé style documentary he intentionally
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On April 20th‚ 1999 at Columbine High School‚ Colorado‚ Two students: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebald stormed the school grounds with two semi-automatic rifles and home made explosives‚ killing 12 students and a teacher‚ as well as injuring 21 others. The pair then committed suicide. This event was the inspiration for Michael Moore’s documentary Bowling For Columbine. In this film he tackles the issue of gun control in America and why they are so different to other countries around the world. Bowling
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