Bowling For Columbine Camera Essay
A Wider View on Michael Moore
Behind the Camera Lens (Moore presented in the film wielding a gun)
Following the massacre of Columbine High School, Colorado, controversial filmmaker Michael Moore, ventured into creating the societal criticism documentary that explored gun violence throughout the United States. The documentary Bowling for Columbine (2002), directed, produced, and written by Moore, deconstructs the events of this massacre, other school shooting, American gun culture, media coverage of such events, paranoia, racism, and poverty and several other subjects through the use of documentary techniques in order to achieve a clear understanding of these issues that underpin his documentary. The main issue being is to search for the answer to why gun violence represents such a great portion in the United States.
By analyzing each potentially influential factor to the astonishingly high number of gun related deaths throughout the United States, Moore is successfully able to manipulate his audience with an incredibly biased and compelling argument on why the issue of gun …show more content…
Moore has the ability to present the audience with a social issue, and guide their minds into adopting his ideologies, aligns almost perfectly within the humorous, satirical, intrusive, and sarcastic ways Moore uses throughout his documentaries. Utilising a hybrid of exposition, witness-participation, and interviews, Moore's intense personality chokeholds the film and manipulates the audience into a specified method of thought. Due to Moore's witty personality, interviews tend to be his favourite approach and greatest tool under his belt. This witty personality allows Moore the ability to an extent, humiliate some of his interviewees by in his own mind proving them “wrong” thus making the audience believe in Moore and not these "authority figures." Meg Mundell accurately describes Moore's interviewing style
Behind the Camera Lens (Moore presented in the film wielding a gun)
Following the massacre of Columbine High School, Colorado, controversial filmmaker Michael Moore, ventured into creating the societal criticism documentary that explored gun violence throughout the United States. The documentary Bowling for Columbine (2002), directed, produced, and written by Moore, deconstructs the events of this massacre, other school shooting, American gun culture, media coverage of such events, paranoia, racism, and poverty and several other subjects through the use of documentary techniques in order to achieve a clear understanding of these issues that underpin his documentary. The main issue being is to search for the answer to why gun violence represents such a great portion in the United States.
By analyzing each potentially influential factor to the astonishingly high number of gun related deaths throughout the United States, Moore is successfully able to manipulate his audience with an incredibly biased and compelling argument on why the issue of gun …show more content…
Moore has the ability to present the audience with a social issue, and guide their minds into adopting his ideologies, aligns almost perfectly within the humorous, satirical, intrusive, and sarcastic ways Moore uses throughout his documentaries. Utilising a hybrid of exposition, witness-participation, and interviews, Moore's intense personality chokeholds the film and manipulates the audience into a specified method of thought. Due to Moore's witty personality, interviews tend to be his favourite approach and greatest tool under his belt. This witty personality allows Moore the ability to an extent, humiliate some of his interviewees by in his own mind proving them “wrong” thus making the audience believe in Moore and not these "authority figures." Meg Mundell accurately describes Moore's interviewing style