Bowling For Columbine
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There are about 11,000 gun deaths annually in the United States and only 64 gun related deaths annually in Japan. Why is it such great numbers that Americans die annually due to gun violence? Micheal Moore, one of the most controversial filmmakers of our time directed the documentary, "Bowling for Columbine." Using the Columbine school shooting as his hook, Moore's scathing new documentary attempts to find answers to the question why American culture is steeped in violence and fear. His interviews with a bank that gives away guns, a high school drop-out who's disappointed he only made number two on the towns bomb threat list, and South Park creator Matt Stone and shock rocker Marilyn Manson are baffling, hilarious, and revealing. In this paper I will explore gun control and America's culture of fear.
Moore's landscape for Bowling for Columbine doesn't lie only in that infamously normal little suburb, Littleton, Colorado. Using that town as a starting point, the director travels all over the country and into Canada, searching for the elusive reason as to why Americans are so gun crazy. The film begins light-heartedly. A bearded, heavy-set, suspicious-looking Moore walks into a bank, opens an account, and receives a free gun...