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Bowling For Columbine Review | Madeline Clarke A compelling documentary about the controversial issues of gun culture, violence, war and the media’s role in promoting fear within communities, Michael Moore’s Bowling For Columbine presents a range of modern day issues within American society. By merging together a variety of different film techniques within news reports, statistics, ironic and tense stunts and interviews, the documentary investigates

has to understand that it is not the directors main objective to twist and morph the programme into whatever suits him but at times it is a nessicary evil in order to provide entertainment and to get the message across effectively. For example in Bowling for Columbine the documentary was released in 2002 at the time when the general public had been exposed to news headlines of deaths, murders, crime rates that the public had beendesensitised to social issues that he had to go down the sensationalism

elements of which the audience can relate and identify. In the documentary, “Bowling for Columbine” directed by Michael Moore (2002), we as an audience follow Moore as he explores America’s violent history and whilst making us more aware of gun control in America he is also altering viewers opinions on gun control. This reading will explore the documentary conventions of interviews, montage and hand-held camera featured in Bowling For Columbine and question whether Michael Moore has used these conventions

April 20th, 1999 this terrible massacre occurred. Michael Moore created a documentary called Bowling for Columbine. His film highlights gun issues America has today. Also Moore shows how the news and reports are what has helped to cause most of America’s problems. Documentaries such as this one are must see films. Michael Moore is a precise, driven man who helps give this documentary a storyline. Bowling for Columbine is extremely graphic which helps add emotion to the documentary. He also has many

In the movie Bowling for Columbine, directed by Michael Moore, you see Moore talking to many people on why the Columbine shooting happened. He looks for clues on what could have caused this and how easily it may have been avoided. Macro-sociology is looking at a society as a whole. Some macro-sociological issues that could of contributed to the shooting is media and America's need to have a gun. Media plays a big role by having commercial after commercial about have amazing guns are. While they

Documentaries are usually boring, just spitting facts at the viewers. Not Michael Moore’s “Bowling For Columbine,” this film was very different from any other documentary. It was not simply facts, instead Moore took a different approach to get the attention of the less informed. Learning a lot throughout the film, it would be a great recommendation for anyone looking to learn about the gun accessibility and violence within America. In this documentary, Moore begins by showing how easy it is to

a lot of questions about the nature of American society, and while he doesn't always give us answers, he does conclude that the United States is a nation that is filled with both too many guns and way too much fear (Weschler, 2003). In the Bowling for Columbine documentary has been partly dramatized in regard to some of the events in order to cause an effect to the viewer and some have even gone as far as reshooting the same scene or having various angles of the same scene/event just to make

INTRODUCTION: I. OBJECTIVE The objective of ABC Bowling Alley is to provide top of the line customer satisfaction. This will be the op priority of the company because we want our customers to keep coming back. This objective will seek to provide families with a fun experience while bringing them closer together. Another objective is to be a part of our local community for years to come. ABC wants to become the premier bowling alley in the Laredo area in 2 years and continue to be so for years

Bowling for Columbine isan interactive or participatory documentary directed by Micheal More ( Farenheight 911, Sicko ) in 2002. In this documentry More explores the 1999 Colimbine Masacare, he investigates what lead up to this masacare as well as how Colombine reacted to it. He reads into the violence in the United States and the fact that america has the highest gun-murder rate in the world, he questions the right that Americans have to acessing guns. It is created with many conventions of the

The 2002 film Bowling for Columbine is a documentary written, directed, and narrated by Michael Moore. Moore has won numerous awards including the Academy Award for best documentary feature. The film explores acts of violence with guns and the primary causes for the Columbine School Massacre, where two students shot and killed thirteen people and injured twenty-one others. Bowling for Columbine takes a deep and often disturbing probe into what the motives may have been for the shooters and investigates