Bowling for Columbine

Bowling for Columbine

The Bowling for Columbine is a American documentary film made in 2002 and it was written, directed, and narrated by Michael Moore. Michael Moore was born 23^rd of April in 1954 his full name is (Michael Francis Moore) , he is an American filmmaker, author, social critic, and political activist, also Moore's written and cinematic works criticize globalization, large corporations, assault weapon ownership which the previous president of USA was Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, the main things which happened long time ago and he written „the Iraq War”, also the American health care system which is very bad and capitalism.

The film is focusing on main causes for the Columbine High School massacre in 1999 and other acts of violence with guns, where in America you can buy weapons everywhere and bullets in every supermarket in every states. Michael Moore focuses on the background and environment in which the massacre took place and he is showing, tragedy, interviews with teachers and students and he showing the reactions of people how they react on the situation which happened long time ago and it show that they scare and they been praying to survive. Moore also including the South Park co-creator Matt Stone, the National Rifle Association's then-president Charlton Heston and he seeks to explain why the Columbine massacre occurred and why the United States' violent crime rate and it show that the crime in U.S grow with every year.

What was interesting that in United States you can get free gun for opening a bank account, in a early scene we can see a bank in Michigan that gives customers a free hunting rifle when they make a deposit of a certain size into a time deposit account, and he explains that every American person should have a gun to be safer at home.

Moore played a great role in his documentary film and succeed in spurring viewers to think more about the nature of violence of American; but as a gate-keeper with tendentious and aggressive approach in his documentary film, all the communication that he did seemed symbolic and some sort of individual heroic, hardly add up to a rational approach or real answer to the issue.

Michael Moore’s film enjoys a commercial success: with a budget of only $4,000,000, it grossed $40,000,000 worldwide, including $21,575,207 in the United States. It also broke box office records internationally, becoming the highest-grossing documentary in the U.K. This documentary was successful in particular geographical areas such as in Germany, Greece, Australia, Spain and United Kingdom because the total gross went over $1,000,000 and this was very successful because the film show United States in different angle and how it look like now and how the life is going on there.

I feel the issue of a bowling for columbine it show the United States in angle of weapon and crime and this is addressed to people who are young and how to know about the real life in America. The interview with Michael Moore saying about the Anti-American, and he is saying that he is an anti-American and “very pro-American you there’s nothing, there’s nothing more to do for you country, then to dissent when you feel that there is a need to send to speak out against things you see that Iran and odd and to give people opportunity to laugh had are at their own foibles” Michael Moore, the another topic which is involved in the film which he was interviewing Charlton Heston and the actor said that the problem is with Americans mixed ethnicity, Moore said that “non-aligned I don’t do vision are British television everything you see is exactly as it happened and take to there’s no reaction thers’s no, you know bakery might have seen European documentaries do this home every fact in the film is true but the film has my point of view” also Moore want to show and believe that is shooting and crime in violence in the country.

I think that the trailer show that the group of people who been targeted are children and teenagers because the film trailer says that the shooting games make the children a monster or the killers and everything is caused by the video games and game make young people in the future as the killers.