A documentary often serves to position the viewer to consider the perspective that it presents. Michael Moore's 2002 documentary Bowling for Columbine (what a wonderful world) is about a shooting massacre that assured at columbine high school. Moores uses the incident as to ask questions as to why america is such a a violent nation, full of fear that people are driven to the extent of having to posses a weapon so as to feel safer. Moore compares America to there neighboring country canada frequently, using examples such as the similar gun laws that they have and how they not feel the need to own a gun to feel safe. Moore also interviews a variety of people like Charlton Heston the former president of the national rifle association (NRA) and celebrity icons and other people off the streets.
He focuses on the anger created by racism within the American society and proves his point by telling his own life story about protecting his “manhood.” It exposes anger, revenge, and violence as the solution in facing the racial society to preserving his “manhood.” The gun symbolizes the past and the present. It is a symbol to describe how and why the author reacted the way he did. It shows how powerful and defensive a gun can be and over time how it currently serves for different purposes. People abuse the privilege of owning a gun. The story eventually comes to a conclusion alluding everyone matures differently
The tone that Alter uses is positive, yet remains firm. He focuses on trying to convince his audience that torture should be legal in some circumstances. He uses a tone that elicits patriotism from readers because he wants to provoke them so they will take his side. When he state “torture, ok, not cattle prods or rubber hoses, but something to jump-start the stalled investigation of the greatest crime in American history.” he is referencing the September 11th attacks, and asserts that nothing has really been done about the individuals responsible. And in order for this tone to work, Alter needs to have a specific audience in mind.
In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership WHY I CHOOSE THIS FILM I choose this film because Michael Moore talk about reality is not trying to teach us about gun control in America but merely ask about why so many deaths, violent and anger behaviours among people in America than other country. THE CORE STORY OF THIS FILM This Film “Bowling for Columbia” is one of Michael Moore Documentary, it was produce in 2002 and evolved around how violence has been supported and encourage in our society. The documentary is run in the USA in a gun loving town called Michigan, in the said town there is a gun paradise Bank called North County Bank and Trust, “IF you open an account in this Bank a gun will be given, also this bank is a gun paradise where everyone that lives have access to gun. Michigan states police even said that the community is a place where you can commit crime, therefore when a dog shot a victim it was not held down for the crime because it is consider as a person. As Gun was free bullet
* First Reading-Political-Conservative Reading of Bowling for Columbine Clearly it can be said that bowling for Columbine is pure Liberal propaganda that plays on people’s emotions with cheap editing, guerilla interviews and twisting of facts, Moore may claim he’s not a documentarian but he sure did accept the Oscar for it. Michael Moore’s documentaries are in tune with the definition of guerilla film making, his down to earth approach place him on the same level with the average American viewer, even though he is the so called typical rich fat white man that is supposedly responsible for all our problems. His documentary which according to IMDB earned $24 Million is a controversial work in that it challenges the so called American gun culture and problem. The documentary Bowling for Columbine is a disgrace in that it disrespects the conventions that we demand from documentary, to be informed with fact; the only convention it may follow is that the documentary serves as self-satisfying entertainment to the liberal left-wing politicos and their anti-gun anti-responsibility agendas. A constant message throughout this documentary is that because some mentally challenged teens shot up a school and killed 15 students the 80 million responsible gun owners who handle over 300 million firearms in the US are somehow responsible (2011 Gallup Firearms Survey).
In Matthew Rudy’s “Why Women Putt Worse than Men” he does a really nice job of backing up his claims. Matthew Rudy is a golf journalist who writes for Golf Digest and ESPN. His article mainly focuses on logos and little bit on pathos. He uses real stats that displays his seemingly radical statement and doesn’t get offensive. I love the in-depth examples that he gives in this article because he doesn’t just say that women are worse putters than men, but instead he backs it up with facts that makes his claim truthful.
My analysis mainly focuses on semantic fields and syntax. A semantic field of fear runs throughout the discourses of both Blair and Bush. Bush began his speech with the following sentence; “Good evening… series of deliberate and deadly terrorist attacks”. Blair also opts to utilise the same method “it was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of mankind, it was tragedy, an act of evil”. Due to the semantic field of fear and terror running throughout the discourses of Bush and Blair their choice of lexis is crucial in conveying their political ideologies.
President Bashar al-Assad, a western-trained optician and once viewed as a reformer, ordered the military to fire on protesters, with nearly 3,000 killed in the conflict. When the demand for democratic reform conflicted with Al-Assad’s fear of losing power, he transformed into a tyrant and dictator. Encountering conflict may also simply force a person in a position of power to lose power. When opposition to a person’s power is too great it may force a change, and can destroy a person who has lost his/her power. In Arthur Miller’s play, “The Crucible”, Rev.
This documentary heavily revolves around the idea that the main cause of gun violence in America is due to so many American’s being immersed in a culture of fear. This matter is brought up by Rock Artist Marilyn Manson whos music was targeted by the media in the wake of The Columbine Massacre as a cause of the mass shooting. “It’s a campaign of fear and consumption” says Manson, “Keep the people scared and they will consume”. Moore seems to agree as he plays a montage of TV news headlines that blast viewers with images of crime after crime. This shows the viewer how Americans are not being shown the more important news story’s when a clip reveals “new speedbumps” being setup in a peaceful town in Canada.
Rhetorical Analysis of Bowling for Columbine Michael Moore’s film Bowling for Columbine examines the use of guns and related violence. Moore’s main argument in the film is that Americans are kept afraid of each other, which is what causes disproportionate gun violence, as compared with other nations. It is especially evident that the film is intended to appeal to an audience of individuals who are against guns or are advocates of gun control and safety. Moore’s appeal aims to take the audience through an exploration of the history of guns and violence, while stirring up the question of when young people commit violent acts, who should be blamed? Bowling for Columbine follows a rhetorical format that applies heavy use of ethos, pathos, and logos to form his message of a “trigger-happy” America.