Analysis Of Bowling For Columbine

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 possibilities he examines, the two factors the first factor being the widespread availability of guns and ammunition, and the second reason being a pervasive culture of fear, paranoia, and mistrust

Despite starting off by stating that he himself is an member of the NRA (national rifle association) he is often seen to have a negative outlook towards the organization but in the end the viewer comes to terms to a fact that Michel Moore not “anti-shooter” in the sense of wanting to outlaw all firearms in the country but can be seen as a concerned citizen who is just outraged by all the violence and mayhem that has been caused due to the so called gun culture that is prevalent in the united states . Moore tries to examine what is so different about the U.S. that might account for this. He brushes aside the often told theory that the United States possesses a more violent history than other lands but he points out the genocides and atrocities performed in t by Germany, Japan, Britain and France. He isn’t convinced by the theory of the family background since divorces in Britain are much more frequent. He reasons that a probable reason appears to be that most of these states have much stricter gun control laws, so that lower gun violence is simply a consequence

He confronts the NRA supreme gun advocate Charlton Heston he does this by representing himself as an NRA member and holds an interview with Heston in his Beverly Hills home. When Moore asks him a few tough questions Heston tries to yield an explanation, but he later decides to simply leave and does not turn when Moore tries to test him a picture of the young girl who was killed in Flint. The coldness of his reply, without so much as a word of refutation, combined with the image of him slowly walking away across his palatial estate, creates an unsettling image of indifference and a perverse unwillingness to go through some unpleasant realities that are not easily patched up with one’s worldview. Michel more tries his best to show the viewer the devastation cause due to guns and grants the two survivors s of columbine the opportunity to air their views in his documentary. He Even takes them to K-mart the place where the shooter bought their ammunition and talks to the executives, he is much less confrontational and he conveys his gratitude when K-mart makes policy changes that exceeded his expectation. This leads to Moore’s most compelling point, which is that American society, aided and abetted by its media and politicians, subsists in a climate of fear and mistrust and makes a compelling point about the dangerous of