'Bowling for Columbine', filmanalyse

Bowling for Columbine ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Bowling for Columbine is a documentary from 2002. It’s written, directed, produced, and narrated by Michael Moore. The film explores what Michael Moore suggests are the causes for the Columbine High School massacre, and other acts of violence with guns around in the USA. Through the movie Michael Moore shows how easily it is to get guns and ammunition in USA, and that almost everybody has a gun, and someone has even more in their home, because they feel protected when they have loaded guns in the home, so then they can protect them self when they are at home. He talks with a lot of different people through this movie; The South Park co-creator Matt Stone, the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) then-president Chalton Heston, and the musician Marilyn Manson, - Moore seeks to explain why the Columbine High School massacre happened, and why the United States has a higher violent crime rate (especially gun violent) than every other countries in the world. In his own unusual way he shows a lot of entertaining, catching, and choking scenes through the whole film, and it gives me a desire of witching it. I think it’s good that Michael Moore did this film. It really shows how easily it is to get guns, and how many who has a gun in their home. I think that one of the most choking scenes in the movie is when he walks in to a bank and is being told that if he signs a loan, then he will get a free gun, and then he goes to a hairdresser, and the he is told that he can buy ammunition when he is waiting for it’s his turn. It’s choking too that when Michael Moore visits Chalton Heston for an interview and first asks him about why he thinks that USA has a way higher dead-rate whit guns than every other country in the world, and Heston doesn’t really have an answer, and tells him about the 6-yearold kid who shot another 6-yearold kid, Heston just ignores him and starts to walk away. I think that it’s really rude that he just walks away. The film doesn’t give a lot of answers, but it creates a lot of debate. – Which also is very good. For people who have seen it, it can create a lot of different standpoints, and if I was an American and I saw this movie, I would think over why I maybe had a gun, or why my other family members have a gun in the house. I wouldn’t feel safe if I had a gun in my house, I would feel that I always had a reason to be wary.