Bowling For Columbine
Bowling for Columbine
In 2002 Michael Moore's film "Bowling for Columbine" won the Oscar for best documentary. Unfortunately, in my opinion I do not believe that this movie is a documentary or truth. Bowling for Columbine is FICTION! The movie makes its points by easily deceiving and misleading the viewer. Moore uses deception as its primary tool of persuasion and effect.
A major theme in Bowling for Columbine is that the NRA is coldhearted towards the killings. In the movie Charlton Heston (President of the NRA) comes to Denver to hold a large pro-gun rally for the National Rifle Association. During Heston's speech he reads a message from the mayor of Denver that states, " Don't come here. We don't want you here." Heston then responds by saying, "Mayor this is our country, as Americans we're free to travel wherever we want in our broad land. Don't come here? We're already here!" From the viewer's point of view it seems that the NRA rushed to Littleton to hold rallies......
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