SOCIETAL OR POLITICAL
The Documentary ‘Bowling for Columbine” directed and produced by Michael Moore focuses on societal issues in America to do with gun laws and violence. Moore raises these topics to make the audience aware that gun laws aren’t strict enough in America to keep everyone in control. He addresses and interviews people about issues like children being able to access guns lying around houses as well as talking to CEOs of companies that make the guns that are brought and distributed to homes around America. The main ideas in Moore’s documentary are ‘how the corporations used fear to their advantage’ and ‘Accessibility to weapons’.
One of the main societal ideas in the film is ‘How the corporations used fear to their advantage’. …show more content…
I did some research and I found out that often the people of America are being ‘endlessly bombarded’ with messages from the media which are often deceitful and fearful. Because of this bombardment beliefs change and to make themselves feel safe they buy guns and weapons to protect themselves, which they have the right to do through the second amendment (the right to bear arms) – this is especially evident with peak gun sales after 9/11 to 2004 while Bush was president. Bush pumped fear into the people through his nationwide speeches as well as the wars he was starting in other countries. Moore shows this fear through an interview in ‘Bowling for Columbine’ where he talks to Charlton Heston an American actor and also a political activist who is known reasonably well throughout America – a man who claims to never have been a victim of crime yet has loaded guns throughout his house for protection. This is the way Americans lived at this time – in fear. In fear of the government and in fear of the people around them that could potentially hurt them. By using this convention of interviewing we learn that there is real fear of shootings and massacres which the leaders of the USA …show more content…
In America through the second amendment Americans have the right to bear arms, which by law is for safety. Sadly it hasn’t worked out in the society’s favour as the wrong people can now get their hands on guns. Moore shares an example of this in the film when he talks about a 6 year old boy getting his uncles loaded gun from home, bringing it to school and accidently shooting a 6 year old girl. If the uncle hadn’t had a loaded gun at home this incident wouldn’t have happened but by law he is entitled to this right. A convention Moore uses to make this kind of story heard is the use of direct engagement between film-maker and subject. Moore talks to two teenagers, Richard Castaldo and Mark Taylor who were shot in the Columbine shooting about what they want to do to make a change. What they decide to do it to try and stop Kmart selling bullets, like the ones that were sold to the two shooters at Columbine to use in the massacre, causing Richard to never be able to walk again. From this incident we learn how accessible weapons are to the American people and how it’s something we need to change to make less accessible. Not everyone needs a gun especially not young people with the wrong ideas. Moore wants the large gun corporations
The Documentary ‘Bowling for Columbine” directed and produced by Michael Moore focuses on societal issues in America to do with gun laws and violence. Moore raises these topics to make the audience aware that gun laws aren’t strict enough in America to keep everyone in control. He addresses and interviews people about issues like children being able to access guns lying around houses as well as talking to CEOs of companies that make the guns that are brought and distributed to homes around America. The main ideas in Moore’s documentary are ‘how the corporations used fear to their advantage’ and ‘Accessibility to weapons’.
One of the main societal ideas in the film is ‘How the corporations used fear to their advantage’. …show more content…
I did some research and I found out that often the people of America are being ‘endlessly bombarded’ with messages from the media which are often deceitful and fearful. Because of this bombardment beliefs change and to make themselves feel safe they buy guns and weapons to protect themselves, which they have the right to do through the second amendment (the right to bear arms) – this is especially evident with peak gun sales after 9/11 to 2004 while Bush was president. Bush pumped fear into the people through his nationwide speeches as well as the wars he was starting in other countries. Moore shows this fear through an interview in ‘Bowling for Columbine’ where he talks to Charlton Heston an American actor and also a political activist who is known reasonably well throughout America – a man who claims to never have been a victim of crime yet has loaded guns throughout his house for protection. This is the way Americans lived at this time – in fear. In fear of the government and in fear of the people around them that could potentially hurt them. By using this convention of interviewing we learn that there is real fear of shootings and massacres which the leaders of the USA …show more content…
In America through the second amendment Americans have the right to bear arms, which by law is for safety. Sadly it hasn’t worked out in the society’s favour as the wrong people can now get their hands on guns. Moore shares an example of this in the film when he talks about a 6 year old boy getting his uncles loaded gun from home, bringing it to school and accidently shooting a 6 year old girl. If the uncle hadn’t had a loaded gun at home this incident wouldn’t have happened but by law he is entitled to this right. A convention Moore uses to make this kind of story heard is the use of direct engagement between film-maker and subject. Moore talks to two teenagers, Richard Castaldo and Mark Taylor who were shot in the Columbine shooting about what they want to do to make a change. What they decide to do it to try and stop Kmart selling bullets, like the ones that were sold to the two shooters at Columbine to use in the massacre, causing Richard to never be able to walk again. From this incident we learn how accessible weapons are to the American people and how it’s something we need to change to make less accessible. Not everyone needs a gun especially not young people with the wrong ideas. Moore wants the large gun corporations