Okay people,
Michael Moore's award-winning, hilarious, sad, biased, brutal, flawed,
must-see documentary Bowling for Columbine will be showing at UBU this
Friday, 9pm. Here's a brief on the doco:
"Michael Moore said it best. Bowling for Columbine is a “portrait of
our nation at the beginning of the 21st century, a nation that seems
hell-bent on killing first and asking questions later.” For anyone who
has ever watched TV Nation or has seen any of Moore's previous films,
nothing seems groundbreaking, but this is by far his most scathing,
graphic and funniest work. Moore does what he does best.
Bowling for Columbine hits hard. It attacks our (US) government's
contradictions, like its $345 billion in aid it gave to the Taliban in
the '90s. It takes on big business: weapons manufacturer Lockheed
Martin, whose biggest plant is located right next to Columbine, and
Kmart, where the bullets used in the tragedy were purchased. And Moore
interviews an interesting group of people: Dick Clark, Marilyn Manson,
Trey Parker, Chris Rock, Charlton Heston, media-born players like Mike
and Terry Nichols' brother James, and the victims of Columbine; people
on the street, the Michigan militia, politicians, and himself.
In his ‘Mooresqe’ world, each player has a specific task. They
represent the omnipresent enemy of power culture brokers, the
victimized heroes that struggle triumphantly, and the jokers who dwell
on reality's outskirts. Moore plays the confrontational truth-seeker as
he leads you through his film in his own unique way, and it's clear
that he intends to sway the way we think.
Moore does nothing new with his film, but that's not the point. Bowling
for Columbine asks you to think. The film wants you to question the
messages it delivers, to step back and look at the big picture. There
are no answers this time for Moore. But that's what makes this an even
better piece." –
http://www.invisiblestrand.com/invisiblestrand/review.asp?review_id=17
"...the film is a nearly perfect piece of entertaining propaganda.
It's much more like a punk rock song than a doctoral dissertation, so
it doesn't really matter if the details and nuances are right. And the
more you think about it, the more the gist of the film seems to be dead
on. When you look at the pernicious characteristics of American
society from the prevalence of advertising that is meant to inflame our
insecurities to fire and brimstone religion, fear seems to be the
common factor. " –
http://ruthlessreviews.com/bowlingforcolumbine.html
"Bowling for Columbine weaves an ornate web of insight and half-truth,
lefty conspiracy and justified finger-pointing, sensationalism and
sentiment as it tells the story of America's out-of-control gun culture
which saw one of their ugliest outcomes in the 1999 mass murders at
Colorado's Columbine High School." –
http://reeltime.cln.com/movies/cdisplay.asp?ID=6991
"This is the latest in Michael Moore's
blow-the-lid-off-Corporate-America documentaries, which starts out
examining why Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold let loose on their high
school. Some have accused Moore of trying to capitalize on the
tragedy(and this seems to be coming from people who haven't actually
seen the film), but the Columbine shootings play a much smaller role in
the movie than expected, serving more as a starting point than the main
focus. It grows into a much bigger picture as the movie questions why
the gun fatalities for the U.S. total around 11,000 a year, compared to
literally 200 and under for other civilized countries. Why are
Americans so violent ?" –
http://www.chateaubizarre.com/ballroom/reviews-
cult.php?intId=8&PHPSESSID=654a86b0ea17d17521c3c249e7e9c5a8
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