Bowling for Columbine
Watched Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine (2002) last night. If you haven’t seen it - give it a “shot” - well worth a look (I got it from the local library). If ever one needed a reason to be concerned about our apparent adoption of the social and cultural mores of the U.S. of A., then this film would surely provide reason enough.
It’s a really entertaining and well made doco - I was laughing in the first few minutes - but then that laughter quickly turned to tears, and I found myself alternating between smiles and watering eyes for the rest of the film’s duration.
It’s not so much a documentary on the teenage massacre that took place at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado in 1999, but more a study of the “industry of fear” that seems to feed the American psyche. Interviewed in the film, Marilyn Manson, contemporary “goth” music guru, towards whom much of the blame for the massacre was aimed, because of his band’s supposedly violence-inspiring music, provides an insightful rebuttal suggesting that fear is what drives the American economy: “Keep everybody afraid and they’ll consume”. If ever we had anything to be afraid of, it’s the U.S. of A.
Bowling for Columbine - check it out - it’ll blow you away - or, at least, give you ammunition for thought.
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I’d suggest that it is governments around the world that create myths and sell them as truths. The government of the U.S. of A. certainly seems to have a fetish with weapons. They develop weapons of mass destruction, but get all pooey when another nation does the same. Who’s creating myths? Who’s telling the truth?
Anothe person who has fallen for the “created truths” of Michael Moore. Sad really.
I suppose you also believe the Da Vinci Code is factual.
Da Vinci Code, na, sorry, and I won’t bother rushing off to see what sort of pap Ron Howard has produced. I do, however, believe there is a Ramsay Street and that Paul Robinson is an evil man.
That aside, you obviously believe George W Bush - and that is what is really sad - but fortunately his days in the presedency are numbered - hopefully the U.S. of A. will one day get over its ‘holier than thou’ white stallion of puritanical bigotry and concern itself more with its own internal strife rather than sticking its nose into the affairs of the world uninvited - and hopefully the Australian government will one day realise we don’t have to kowtow to a right-wing regime hell-bent on rebirthing Macarthyism at every opportunity.
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Moore, unfortunately, has taken to creating myths and selling them as truths…unfortunately the rest of the world seems to see them as factual, when he creates the facts to fit his own view. Watch them not to be informed, but as pure fiction.