America’s Gun Culture - PDF
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TABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE OF CONTENTS................................................................................................................2Subject matter..................................................................................................................................1Background to the story...................................................................................................................1Documentary style...........................................................................................................................1Structure of documentary to reinforce its message..........................................................................2Way in which documentary makers has used cinematic techniques and code to reinforce andconstruct meaning............................................................................................................................2Overall response to the way in which audience has been positioned by the documentary maker..3REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4
Subject matterBowling for columbine is an American documentary film released in 2002 and produced,directed and narrated by Michael Moore. This movie mainly focuses on act of violence with gunsand primary causes for Columbine High School Massacre (Cavender and Jurik, 2016). Thismovie also focuses on the environment and the background in which massacre took place,assumptions about the related issue and common public opinions. This film also looks intonature of violence in United States. This documentary also proceeds further to understandAmerica’s gun culture. This movie had also interviewed various kinds of prominent figures whowere partially blamed for this massacre from gun toting to gun rocker. One of the main argumentthat this movie focuses on is that even though Canada and US both have same rate of gunownership, crime rate in Canada is remarkably lower as compared to US.Background to the storyMichael Moore explores the reason because of which massacre of one teacher and 12students at Columbine High School happened on 20th April, 1999. This movie also explains theway in which two students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold easily acquires Four pieces of firearmseven though they had a history of juvenile detention, arrests, drugs dependencies and counsellingsessions. Michael has also documented the way in which US has turned up as a country withhighest number of gun related killing. An Interview that was held with the former president ofnational rifle association, Michael explains how easy it is to acquire guns and munitions. Moorealso links involvement of US with terrorist such as Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein for itsown gains which further resulted in death of millions of civilians from 1953 to 2001. It can besaid that the main theme of the movie or documentary is presented early in the film and helps increating viewers first impression. Documentary styleBowling for columbine is a new generation documentary which consist of fusing flashynews reports, ironic twists, bizarre situations, tense interview and south park style animation(Ramsey., 2015). Michael Moore takes a look to the streets of Canada and US in order to explorewhy America is such a violent country especially when there is involvement of guns. It can besaid that it is an off-beat documentary style. Moore also visits in a bank of Michigan where arifle is given to everyone who opens up an account in their bank. This movie consists of commonelements to which the audience can relate and identify by presenting the idea of reality to the1
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