Opposing Forces
The individuals who are in favor of gun control are the weaker force in the documentary and the society against gun control are the stronger force. The weakness in the society is fair of lose their rights to buy guns without permission and the goal in the weaker is fight against guns.
Signifiers
The first signifier is the background music of the song called “What a Wonderful World” when the documentary was showing images of cruel things that humans did to others. For example, when the American military killed 4 million people in Southeast Asia. The song has a sarcastic meaning because the videos that were shown while the music was playing were not resemble of a wonderful world. Another signifier was a message that a woman said …show more content…
For example, if a boy has pimples, girls are not going to fuck them. He explains that this is how media reflects the culture, and how the real society is being affected by media.
The documentary points out that most of the people see guns as a part of their culture and Americans feel protected when they have a gun. It is reflecting the real society in the United States.
In Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore says that The United States if one of the countries that has the highest murder rate with guns. This is reflecting that guns can be part of the culture but giving the freedom of guns does not make the United States the safest country in the world.
Creating culture
People still having troubles remembering the Columbine High School massacre in 1999; It is seen in the documentary when Daniel’s father, the father of one of the children that died in the Columbine High School shooting, almost start to cry when he is talking about his son. He said, “something is wrong in this country when someone shot a bullet into the middle of a child face as my child experienced, something is wrong”. He was consumed by the pain of loosing his child
The individuals who are in favor of gun control are the weaker force in the documentary and the society against gun control are the stronger force. The weakness in the society is fair of lose their rights to buy guns without permission and the goal in the weaker is fight against guns.
Signifiers
The first signifier is the background music of the song called “What a Wonderful World” when the documentary was showing images of cruel things that humans did to others. For example, when the American military killed 4 million people in Southeast Asia. The song has a sarcastic meaning because the videos that were shown while the music was playing were not resemble of a wonderful world. Another signifier was a message that a woman said …show more content…
For example, if a boy has pimples, girls are not going to fuck them. He explains that this is how media reflects the culture, and how the real society is being affected by media.
The documentary points out that most of the people see guns as a part of their culture and Americans feel protected when they have a gun. It is reflecting the real society in the United States.
In Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore says that The United States if one of the countries that has the highest murder rate with guns. This is reflecting that guns can be part of the culture but giving the freedom of guns does not make the United States the safest country in the world.
Creating culture
People still having troubles remembering the Columbine High School massacre in 1999; It is seen in the documentary when Daniel’s father, the father of one of the children that died in the Columbine High School shooting, almost start to cry when he is talking about his son. He said, “something is wrong in this country when someone shot a bullet into the middle of a child face as my child experienced, something is wrong”. He was consumed by the pain of loosing his child