Similarities Between Bowling For Columbine And 1984

Michael Moores documentary “Bowling for Columbine” and George Orwell's novel “1984” both use fear as a method of media manipulation throughout both the documentary and novel. They use the fear of media manipulation to support their meaning behind Bowling for Columbine and 1984. Unquestionably Michael Moore and George Orwell both use various amounts of media manipulation to fear their audience. To start off, in the novel “1984”, George Orwell shows media manipulation throughout the entire book because whatever the government says, the people most likely will believe. For example when Winston first got taken by the thought police he hated Big Brother, but after being there for a while they manipulated him into loving Big Brother. They used this manipulation to show that people actually believe what the government says. In “Bowling for Columbine” there is a scene that Michael Moore interviews Marilyn Manson. The reason why he interviewed him was because he was getting blamed by the news reporters that he was responsible for the columbine shooting, only because of what he looked like and what he sang. This

Such as, in “1984” the government forbids sex and affection because people and it's bad to have an emotional connection, but they actually just did not want them to get close and start telling secrets. They manipulated the people to think that connections between people are bad. On the other hand, in “Bowling for Columbine” Michael Moore shows throughout the whole documentary multiple interviews and scenes talking about how bad guns are. This manipulated people by fear because he showed scenes from the columbine shooting of the two students shooting their own classmates. This fears the audience about guns. It manipulates us into thinking that guns are bad, but they don’t tell us that guns are also used for safety. They only talked about the