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A Glorious Time to Be American

(Analytical Review of Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore)

★★★★★

You woke up this morning

Got yourself a gun,

Mama always said you'd be

The Chosen One.

She said: You're one in a million

You've got to burn to shine,

But you were born under a bad sign,

With a blue moon in your eyes.

You woke up this morning

All that love had gone,

Your Papa never told you

About right and wrong.

  • Alabama 3

Thesis: Although fear within the society and easy access to guns fuels a country’s economy, it also may result in many deaths.

Plan.

1. Introduction. Some facts about the the director.

2. Overview of the film.

  1. The issues that the film raises.

  2. THE BLUE MOON – THE TV SCREEN

Historical background about gun possession in the US. 2nd Amendment. To an individual or to the nation?

The legislation on gun ownership in different countries.

Follow the guide.

Conclusion.

Michael Moore, the director of Bowling for Columbine, was born in Davison, a suburb of Flint, Michigan in 1954. He was elected to the Flint school board at the age of 18 being politically active as a teenager. He briefly attended the University of Michigan but left to pursue social and political causes. Moore started a weekly alternative newspaper in the mid-1970s called the Flint Voice (later the Michigan Voice) and also hosted a radio show. In 1986 Moore was hired to edit the liberal magazine Mother Jones but was fired after a few months over differences with the magazine’s publisher. Moore moved back to Flint, where he became disturbed by massive layoffs in the city’s automobile factories, especially at General Motors Corporation. Although he never worked for the company, many of his relatives did in the past. Angered by the company’s decision to lay off thousands of U.S. employees and move jobs to foreign countries with cheaper labor, Moore decided to make a film about the high unemployment and resulting social problems in Flint. That movie, Roger & Me (1989), chronicled Moore’s many fruitless attempts to confront General Motors executive Roger Smith and persuade him to visit Flint. The film earned numerous awards and became the highest grossing documentary film up to that time.

Michael Moore’s film Bowling for Columbine was shot in 2002 and subsequently won several awards including the 55th Anniversary Prize at 2002 Cannes Film Festival, César Award for Best Foreign Film; it was named the Best Documentary of All Time by the International Documentary Association (IDA) and got an Academy Award for Best Documentary Features refers to the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado, in which two armed students killed 13 people and themselves. Before the shootings, the two students reportedly went bowling, hence the director’s allusion in the title.

The film examines several issues including the culture of guns and violence in the United States, it also alludes to the problem of racism, greed and environmental protection.

Alex Kvartalny @ flamedragon27.blogspot.com