This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old. Bowling for Columbine is a journey through the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.
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A private user reviewed Bowling for Columbine (2002)
Editing = Poor
I would give this one star, but I am reserving those for movies that I couldn't even finish, they were so bad. This movie I finished and was extremely angry about for a very long time.
Being from Columbine, I was already somewhat emotional going into this movie, but I really expected more from Michael Moore. It is not that it is even about what happened at CHS, as much as his distortion of facts surrounding what happened and the community involved.
In all fairness, he asks good questions, I will grant him that, but they go unanswered. The extreme tactics he uses to exploit the emotions of his audience leave me furious, but I have to admit what is worse is the dogmatic reaction that the majority of the audience displayed when this movie was over. I found myself wanting to scream, "NO, don't you see? That wasn't TRUE. Don't you people think for yourselves at all?" I appreciate this movie only when it is used to inspire critical thinking from people who actually wish to learn.
Michael Moore's Oscar should have been for editing.
A private user reviewed Bowling for Columbine (2002)
Don't Bother
Don't Bother to see - a complete waste of time
A private user reviewed Bowling for Columbine (2002)
baz00gaes?
Few laughs, few emotional scenes... and...?
First of all I must say, that as a factual documentary Bowling for columbine doesn't hold water.
There are little snippets of truth in there, but their meaning and cause there of, get distorted and carried away by Michael's wild imagination, or should I say: Bias beforehand.
Like the firearm related deaths in america, I liked the train of thought, but it was soon blown out of proportion, or more likely derailed from it's original track.
There's two kinds of documentaries, scripted or unscripted.
The unscripted ones start out with the premise that something that has happened must be investigated, etc.
They don't hold prejudices, or start out with a opinion.. But are in themselves a certain kind of soul search.
They go where the facts take them, and are not frightened if the process
makes them change their whole perspective on things.
THAT'S what i love about documentaries.
Bowling for Columbine isn't one of those, it's a scripted one, with a pre-determined ending and conclusion.
I don't mind Michael Moore's documentary having an opinion, I'm used to plow through shit to get a better view on the facts presented, It's easy to go through this also.
No.. It's the way the documentary itself is presented, it can be easily taken as an unscripted one, where Michael Moore starts out without bias and comes to certain conclusion after viewing the facts and then presenting them to us.
And it's not, it just pretends that it is.. and that's why i Hate it.
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