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Bowling For Columbine
This is the societal reading of Bowling for Columbine, which is a narrative documentary directed by Michael Moore, and mainly talking about the shooting rampage in America, which the film focus on the Columbine campus event and the fear among American. Michael Moore is a famous film maker in America, who is politically very liberal. He is a “darling of the liberal left” and the “target of scorn from the conservative right”. His style of filmmaking has been considered a ‘revolutionary style’ of documentary. He’s popular documentary are focus on War, America’s health care system, and gun control that is the topic of Bowling for Columbine.

One of the main societal idea of the film is gun control. America is always the first country we could think
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Everyone knows that this situation is really frighten and serious, and Michael Moore actually talked about this problem at such an earlier time. The motive of making this documentary is the Columbine campus Event, which is considered as the bloodiest shooting incident at school in American history. Michael Moore leads people to think about the problems of free access of holding guns for every citizen, even the teenagers or small kids. There was a news from New Zealand Herald article said that a child using his gun shot his other when she was driving the car at the front. And the Columbine killer’s mother, Sue Klebold, said the boy was their “Sunshine Boy”. In the film, there is a footage of Columbine event, we could see the killers are two teenagers, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris≥. Also, another example in the film is the six years old boy shot a four years old girl without any reason. Those teenagers or children doesn’t take any responsibility for their actions, but they still have the permission of holding guns. Not only those who doesn’t have sane moral idea, but also some adults who wants the …show more content…
In the documentary, Michael Moore shows a short cartoon of the fear of American, which related to the history. Besides, he use the hand-held camera to interview the policemen stand by the street, while those people doesn't want to talk about that, and put more attention to the black people in their own house or walking on the streets. He also video a process of catching a strong black people at night. America society always put special attention on black people or other minorities that due to their fear, or more precisely, the guilt since they recognized what their ancestor done to the local people and the cheap African slaves bought in Africa. At Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore also talk about the unfair treatment. When he cut all the news footage together, it’s easily to find that all of them are emphasis that the suspect is black people, and government have different attitude towards white people and black people. When media and government feed and drive this fear, people will have inveterately concept that can’t be easily to change of black people. So more and more people buy guns to make themselves feel less unsafe, and start to discriminate and bully the black people to pretend that they are too strong for them to revolt. While Michael Moore interviewed some passerby in Canada, we could see in other countries, black people are treated equally,

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