No more Moore !!!

When we have overlooked the documentary with a highly disputable reputation, Bowling For Columbine, from the filmmaker Michael Moore, we are asked to write an article on a selected scene from the movie, by using available resources to refute or to approve points made by the producer. First of all, I have to admit that this ironic, sarcastic, and satirical presentation of American society's gun crisis gave me a rather positive first impression. But upon further research into the subjects treated in this film, I discover many arrangements made to cajole the audience. These footages rest on a purely emotional ground, therefore bring questions to the accuracy of the movie, supposedly based on facts and nothing but the facts.

Violence and fear are the two main themes of this documentary. They sure are some heavy topics. Maybe in an attempt to loosen the tension build up in the previous scenes, Moore presents us a short animated cartoon called “a brief history of America ", which resembles strangely to the popular series South Park. We can easily be fooled in to believing it comes from the creators of South Park, when we just witnessed Michael Moore interview one of them. Pretty misleading, if we didn't know that the cartoon was drawn by someone else. Narrated in a mocking tone, it starts with the arriving of the Pilgrims in 1620, sailing away from their native England because of their fear of persecution. The characters are dramatized and reduced to a scared mob. The story continues through out with the same exaggeratedly overwhelmed little white men running around and shooting whoever frightens them. Exaggeration used appropriately is indeed very funny, but overdosed it may inflict wounds to the credibility of the whole scheme. The highlight of the play is when Moore not so subtly insinuates the connection between the NRA and the KKK, suggesting that when the Klan was banned, its members formed the National Rifle Association. This theory of so called secret partnership is quickly overthrown, as we find out that KKK, formed by remnants of the southern Confederates have nothing to do with the former Union officers of NRA. Maybe it's just another coincidence, but they happened to be enemies who fought against each other during the civil war.

In conclusion, Bowling For Columbine is the fruit of some inevitable manipulation. The documentary, though not exactly biased, sadly falls back to the overly media exposure it claims to battle. But it stays an interesting source of information with a bold point of view, regardless of all the artificial maneuver. None of us can really flee our subjectiveness, so I recommend people to watch it and to extract their own truth.


谁和我提华氏911我和谁急
老师饶了我吧，我吐不出什么来了。。。