Bowling For Columbine

The first image of ‘Bowling for Columbine’ is from a film promoting the National Rifle Association. A man dressed in an Army uniform says, “The National Rifle Association has produced a film which you are sure to find of great interest. Let’s look at it.” Then Michael Moore starts to talk, against images of people at work in America. It sounds like a “typical morning in America” spiel, but one of the images shows bombed out buildings as Moore says, “and the President bombed another country whose name we couldn’t pronounce,” and then he refers to “the little town in Colorado two boys went bowling at six in the morning”, it cuts to the bowling and then to a cute chick in a swimsuit as she holds up an M-16. Dissolve to the Statue of Liberty. Moore’s voice-over: “It was a typical day in the United States of America”.
As Moore tells us “the president bombed another country” which Moore thought was “typical”, it created the message that America was a violent country and had a violent government. When it cuts to two boys went bowling at six in the morning, it made people curious and made people wonder if the bowling had a connection with the title, and maybe even the massacre in Columbine. It showed irony when the Statue of Liberty – which was supposed to represent freedom and is a symbol of welcoming immigrants coming to America – appeared, but as Moore goes throughout the film, it showed American’s fear and hatred of Blackman, and racism in