Bowling for Columbine

Bowling for Columbine (2002) The homicide rate in the United States is 3 to ten times higher than the homicide rate in the otherwise twenty or so rich, highly industrialized countries. In 2001, 15,980 Americans were murdered. That is over five times more than the number of bulk killed in the terrorist attacks on September 11th of that year. Firearms were used in nearly two-thirds of the murders committed in the United States in 2001. In Bowling for Columbine, docudrama filmmaker Michael Moore describes the magnitude of the problem and helps us figure out why Americans kill one other with such extraordinary frequency. Moore succeeds in his first, descriptive task by combining hilarity with horror. He takes us to a brink that gives away rifles instead of toasters to people who open an account. (Dont you return its a little dangerous to have all these guns in a bank? he asks a teller.) We see security measure camera footage from the 1999 the great unwashedacre at Columbine High naturalize in Littleton, Colorado, where two students shot and killed thirteen fellow students and so committed suicide.

We listen in on Moores interview with Charlton Heston, the hot seat of the National Rifle Association, who cannot answer when Moore asks why a valet who has never been personally threatened, and who now lives behind a mete wall and a locked security gate in a protected neighborhood with security patrols, feels the need to keep a loaded gun in the house. These and many other scenes, roughly tragic, others absurd, provide compelling evidence that guns are as American as apple pie. Not for nothing did the International objective Film Association name this film the best documentary ever made. When it comes to explaining the unusually high American homicide rate, however, the film is less(prenominal) successful. Moore examines three main explanations and rejects them all. First, Americans may be violent because the mass media -- television, video games, movies, popular music -- are full of violence... If you hope to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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