Bowling for Columbine (2002)
Genre: Documentary / Crime
Duration: 120 minuten
Country:
United States / Canada / Germany
Directed by: Michael Moore
Stars: Michael Moore, George W. Bush and Marilyn Manson
IMDb score:
7,9 (152.180)
Releasedate: 9 October 2002
Bowling for Columbine plot
"One nation under the gun"
Michael Moore is looking for the causes of the April 20, 1999 massacre in Littleton, America, where 2 Columbine High School students started firing semi-automatic rifles in the refectory. The balance: 15 dead and 12 seriously injured. Moore also travels through America in search of an explanation for the high number of acts of violence in the country that was once the promised land for everyone. What went wrong? Moore takes a closer look at the mentality of the American citizen who sleeps with a gun under his pillow. He also tries to get actor Charlton Heston, president of the Gun Union, for an interview, he visits Marilyn Manson and analyzes American history.
Actors and actresses
Himself
Himself
Himself
Himself - NRA President
Himself - President of Guatemala
Himself - Mayor of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
Himself
Himself - County Prosecutor: Flint, Michigan
Himself - Police Detective
Himself - Columbine Victim
Reviews & comments
mister blonde
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I sympathize with the message of this film and I even agree with Moore to a large extent, but that doesn't make a good film.
At the end I thought 'what did this movie tell me that I didn't already know? I often thought of Mister Mackey from South Park; 'guns are bad mwookay'.
Furthermore, this film is very short sighted at many moments. Bombing Heston as a common enemy is an example of this. that this film is manipulative and solely subjective is not the worst. that it is messy and often quite incoherent though.
The Americans undoubtedly needed this blow, but I can't do anything with that. this movie isn't much more. 2 stars for some nice moments.
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Shadowed
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- 11421 messages
- 6719 votes
First Moore.
I used to be convinced that this documentary was only about the infamous Columbine shooting, but then I didn't know Michael Moore and his beliefs. Ultimately, this whole incident is also more of a means of communication through which to express all kinds of social criticism of America as yet unimproved.
Bowling for Columbine is very direct in communication, sometimes so direct that it seems more like penetrating Moore's opinion than presenting the facts. The documentary is actually a kind of combination between entertainment with a critical undertone and intrusive material, but it is correct material that sometimes highlights what is wrong with America.
The sharp edges of the documentary ensure that it always has something to offer to keep the viewer interested. Less interesting are the bits where Moore confronts some people himself, such as the entire sequence with Heston. Very exciting. I prefer to see a problem tackled at the core than at the metastasis. Anyway, apparently it does cause a stir and that causes viewers.
The problem is mainly Moore himself who gets in the way of the film, because the base is very interesting and shocking. I would have preferred a neutral narration that presents the facts as they are now without a sometimes rather clumsy filmmaker blaring through it, because Moore is mostly unsympathetic and that distracts me from the problem itself. And it is precisely the latter that should be given priority and provides some unique pieces within this documentary.
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