Michael Moore’s documentary ”Bowling for Columbine” about the high homicide-numbers in the United States, is bound to create a stir: from the ever explosive gun-law discussion to Michael Moore’s controversial film-making and extraordinary one-sidedness.
The film is two hours endless slaughtering of the American gun-law as being way too loose, the media and the politicians for filling the population with unfounded fear and the gun fanatics for being racist anarchists.
The documentary’s jump-off point is the Columbine High School-shooting in 1999, where teenage-students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people before committing suicide.
In the search for a course of the Columbine-tragedy Michael Moore interviews several individuals including National Rifle Organisation-president Charlton Heston, Satanic rocker Marilyn Manson and the brother of Oklahoma City-bomb co-conspirator Terry Nichols, the weapon-mad loony James Nichols who claims: “The pen is mightier than the sword, but you have to have a sword for when the pen fails.”
Michael Moore has often been criticized for his manipulative way of making his documentaries, and “Bowling for Columbine” is no exception. First of all, Moore uses viciously sarcastic and humorous methods to put his opinions forward. An example is when a weapon factory executive says about Americans: “We don’t get irritated with somebody, and just because we’re mad at them drop a bomb or shoot at them”. Another sarcastic sequence which has also given the film its name is when Michael Moore suggests that bowling should be blamed for the Columbine-shooting, because the last thing Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold did before the massacre, was bowling.
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