{"id":110,"date":"2014-05-15T23:10:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T23:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patrickhoey.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2015-02-14T23:12:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T23:12:57","slug":"bowling-for-columbine-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickhoey.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/15\/bowling-for-columbine-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowling for Columbine (2002)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cast<\/strong>: Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson<br \/>\n<strong>Director<\/strong>: Michael Moore<br \/>\n<strong>Screenplay<\/strong>: Michael Moore<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>: Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America&#8217;s predilection for gun violence. <sup>[1]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>The film \u201cBowling for Columbine\u201d is a good example of a Michael Moore \u201cdocumentary\u201d. I have watched all of his documentaries and realize after extensive research on my own that Moore\u2019s documentaries are a manipulation of the audience with half-truths, representing people in false light, and nothing more than propaganda at its best. These films feign ignorance of this manipulation and stipulate for the audience that they are seeking only the truth, but in fact the films take advantage of the audience by editing tricks such as circus music playing during sequences he doesn\u2019t care for, or jump cuts that juxtapose a sequence to show something is related when the core concepts are not. Also, in documentaries, when interviewing people, you will always find yourself retaking scenes as the interviewee gets more comfortable and is better able to articulate their thoughts, but with Moore\u2019s documentaries, he will always take the less favorable, less articulate, edits with interviewee\u2019s in order to make his point with those he does not agree with. In all, Moore jumps around, meandering about never really addressing his main premise, his main question of \u201cwhy\u201d. I have an answer for Mr. Moore. When he interviewed the creator of \u201cCops\u201d and basically asked because the creator was a liberal, wasn\u2019t it hypocritical to make a show that exploits certain ethnicities? The creator justified his actions because he was doing the show because \u201cit sold.\u201d Well done Mr. Moore. Your documentaries exploit complex societal issues that you distill down to talking points and cheap editing tricks all to make a few million dollars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u201cBowling for Columbine.\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">IMDb: The Internet Movie Database<\/span>. IMDb.com-Amazon.com, 1990-2014. Thurs. 15 May 2014. &lt; http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0310793\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 &gt;.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBowling for Columbine.\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/span><em>.<\/em>com, 2014. Thurs. 15 May 2014. &lt; http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/bowling_for_columbine\/ &gt;.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBowling for Columbine.\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wikipedia<\/span>. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 2014. Thurs. 15 May 2014. &lt; http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bowling_for_Columbine &gt;.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cast: Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson Director: Michael Moore Screenplay: Michael Moore Synopsis: Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America&#8217;s predilection for gun violence. [1]. 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