Bowling For Columbine (2002) Current mood: blah Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Today in college we watched the Michael Moore documentary Bowling For Columbine which was an insight into what drove two boys from a school in Colorado to get hold of ammunition and kill twelve pupils and a schoolteacher.
The gun laws in the States are very different to the rest of the world as was spelled out by actor Charlton Heston at rallies presented on behalf of the National Rifle Association.
For some strange reason Heston always seemed to be in town in the wake of a gun tragedy. Another incident had occured in Flint, Michigan where a six year old had killed a schoolfriend of the same age.
It turned out that his mother had to work to pay off a debt and was regularly out of town where her son was left in the care of others. He'd found a gun and had taken it to school.
Michael Moore went to the Dick Clark Bandstand themed complex where it was revealed many employees of the cafeteria and restaurants worked for small reward. Dick Clark himself however having put his name to the complex had nothing to say of the matter.
It was revealed in nearby Canada that gun deaths were minimal and this was maybe because the national news wasn't full of scaremongering stories that put people in fear for their lives.
The creators of South Park mocked up a history of the USA's love of gun law taking us through the Pilgrim Fathers, slavery and the Civil Rights Movement that painted a picture of racism causing gun fury.
A tail end interview with Charlton Heston proved the man to be a bigot and an inverted racist who it was found had no rationale for having a gun other than it made him a bigger and better man. Absolutely pathetic.
Although I'm not a fan of Michael Moore's confrontational style I do think the bad guys in this documentary did themselves no favours. Especially the idiot whose brother bombed a government building who seemed to think sticking a gun to your head and spinning the barrel was a bit of a laugh!