Bowling For Columbine Essay

This is a genre reading of Bowling for Columbine, which is a narrative documentary directed by Michael Moore (Fahrenheit 9/11, Slacker Uprising, TV Nation, The Awful Truth). The film reflecting the fear among the American, because of the guns, and the sadness for those tragedy of kids and teenagers using guns freely and shooting some innocent people, especially the teachers and students who are at school. It is quite different from people’s impression of the documentary. Director always show up in film and join the conversation in the interview, which carry people forward of understanding the events, the feelings and opinions of the victims and their family, or irrelevant people. Also, the meaning of making this documentary is not mainly let

Match up with the resources, director can showing his own opinions and helping people analyze the character or the events, but it could also eliciting people into his own understanding, probably sort of preconception since he is a politician, and this is also his purpose. For instance, when Michael Moore talk about the fear of black people or other minorities among American, he use ironic or sincere tone to say that those fear are ridicules and the people we actually need to care or protect are still been treated unfairly. The words of his voice over is “You know, the thing I love about this country of mine is that whether you’re a psychotic killer or running for President of the United States (the Willie Horton add in 1988), the one thing you can always count on is white America’s fear of the black man.” After 9/11, people became very sensitive, and fear of each other, which is excusable. But when these become the excuse of holding guns and some people’s prejudice, since almost or even all of the American have guns, like one of the news said, there is sixteen-year-old teenager bought all the bullet in a shop. Guns doesn’t reduce their fear, but brings too much hurt to those innocent people, and Michael Moore want to use this documentary to let people aware of this phenomenon and stop doing the same things (including afraid, discrimination, bully and humiliate) as