Bowling for columbine

Bowling for Columbine.
1. Give a short summary of the movie.
2. What is your opinion about the NRA?
3. Give examples where Michael Moore uses humor or irony!
4. What is the difference between USA and Canada?
5. What is the “welfare to work” – program?
6. Describe what happened at the K-mart.
1. Short summary:
“Bowling for Columbine” is a humorous and horrifying film about the United States. The director of the film Michael Moore asks a country, who has plenty of guns, where schools have detectors to screen the students for weapons: what they think about their gun law? He shows us the shooting in 1999 at Columbine school, where 11 students and 1 teacher was shot by two teenagers (Ed Harris and Dylan Klebold). In the movie Michael Moore also talk with the head leader of NRA (National Rifle Association), Michael Moore ask provocative questions about, why the head leader came to columbine right after the shooting at Columbine school, and halt a NRA meeting. When the public of Columbine were still in shock. After that the public blamed their depravity on everything from violent video games, to hard-core heavy-metal rocker Marilyn Manson. They meant that it was his music that got the teenagers mad. Marilyn Manson didn’t take it so hard, he meant just like Michael Moore: that it were because of their law, the teenagers got that mad. And a last we see Michael helping, 2 of the victims, of the shooting at Columbine school. Because they think that it will help, if K-mart stopped selling refills, and they think it’s strange that, K-mart still sells refills when they don’t sell guns anymore. So what the want is that, K-mart stops selling refills. And there prayers are heard: K-mart stopped selling refills.

1. What I think about NRA:
I think that NRA should be shut down; it’s not a fond, who thinks that shooting is wrong. And that’s a bad think for the public to here when almost everyone in the United States has a gun. NRA is not helping anyone to stop the shooting at the streets.

2. Examples where Michael Moore uses humor or irony:
In the beginning of the film, Michael Moore uses his sense of humor: he is going to a bank, where you get a complimentary gun of your own choice, if you open an account.

3. The difference about USA and Canada:
In USA there is plenty of shooting every day, and there are so many ganster-grups, shooting at each other. But in Canada the public feels safe for example, they don’t even shut their doors at night. And they can feel safe, because there are not so many shootings as there is in USA!
4. The “welfare to work” – program is:
The “welfare to work” – program is a program that sends single parents, who has tax problems, or are on social assistance: out on the labor market. In the movie we hear about a young boy, in nursery class, who killed a girl at same age. The boy lived at his uncles, because his mother didn’t have a lot of money (she were in the “welfare to work” – program) one day the boy found a gun, in his uncle’s wardrobe. He brought it to school, and there he killed the young girl in his class.
5. What happened at the K-mart?:
(From the summary) Michael Moore is helping, 2 of the victims, of the shooting at Columbine school. Because they think that it will help, if K-mart stopped selling refills, and they think it’s strange that, K-mart still sells refills when they don’t sell guns anymore. So what the want is that, K-mart stops selling refills. And there prayers are heard: K-mart stopped selling refills.