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Directed By
Michael Moore
Cast:
Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Dick Clark, Bill Clinton, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson, Matt Stone, Denise Ames, Salvador Allende, Denise Ames, Arthur A. Busch, Barry Glassner, Manuel Noriega, Shah Mohammed, Reza Pahlavi
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Bowling for Columbine (2002)
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Movie Review by AJ 
July 19th, 2006
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When Bowling for Columbine was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, it received a standing ovation that lasted for 13 minutes. Every single second of every single minute of that applause was wholly deserved: Bowling for a Columbine is a profound, disturbing, and absolutely brilliant dissection of America's love for guns and abundance of murder, as well as our tangled culture of fear. Michael Moore, possibly more so than any other documentary filmmaker, knows how to cut right to the nervous center of his viewers in the quickest and most concise manner. Take a montage of real murders scored by The Beatles' "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," a brilliantly wacky animated segment about white America's fascination with guns and violence throughout history (a colonial purrs, "I loves my gun. Loves my gun."), or security footage of the Columbine High School massacre with the sad/terrifying 911 calls playing over it (the operator is hostile with concerned parents, but gushes over a Dateline correspondent). The topic that Moore takes on is not a simple one, and at the end there are no conclusive answers, but that's only because, quite simply, none exist. But Moore manages to stimulate and prod his audience, hopefully leaving them with a lot more to chew on than before they popped the DVD in. And once it's over, one segment that keeps echoing in the viewer's head is Moore's interview with NRA head/Moses himself Charlton Heston, as a blithely ignorant Heston carelessly asks, "Why should I apologize to the people of Flint, Michigan?" after holding a gun rally the very next day after a six year-old girl is shot to death by a six year-old boy. Why, indeed?
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 | Rodney
Jul 19, 2006 6:50 PM
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| couldn't agree Moore. |
 | Seth C
Jul 20, 2006 4:36 AM
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| Great review; it was short, yet very informative as it completely detailed just about every GREAT thing about this GREAT film. - SCF |
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