Bowling For Columbine Documentary Analysis

Bowling for columbine is a biased, deceptive and misleading documentary created by Michael Moore, detailing how gun legislation is the main cause for crime in America. Documentary is an undeserved title that Moore has falsely claimed, as stated in Farlex dictionary, a documentary is, and I quote, “Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter”, which Moore has consistently done. Good afternoon, my name is Tim Geldard, and I am a spokesperson for the NRA, protector of the American people and her interests.
Michael Moore creates an unrealistic, untrue recount of past and currents events. He doesn’t just do this by editing advertisements to warp its purpose. He doesn’t just do this by adding subtitles wherever
He leaves out critical information which would otherwise change the outcome entirely. Several examples are present in his documentary, such as when Moore suggests that America is the only one that has had a massacre in the ten years before it was made. Just three years before Bowling for Columbine was created, a man in Britain drove around town with a shotgun for two hours, killing anyone he drove past, before eventually shooting himself. This is just one tiny example of a barrage if invalid “truths”. One major one is when Charlton Heston is making one of his speeches to the rally in Denver. Michael plays on the fact that it was just 10 days after the columbine shootings, and hints that Charlton Heston just didn’t care, and went there anyway. This representation, of course, is not true. Critical information is left out such as the fact that instead of staying there for nine days with dinners, shooting contests and festivals, they held only the rally, and left. Also, by law the NRA must hold an annual rally, and this one had been booked years in advance. But that begs the question, why didn’t they postpone, cancel or even move it? This at least has a simple answer. Again by law the NRA has to give at least 10 days notice for any changes to the rally, therefore making it illegal to change the date or place. Charlton Heston simply had no choice to hold the rally. Also, to further show how wrongly Moore portrays the NRA, the clip shown after that columbine shootings where Heston says “from my cold dead hands” was actually taken a year after the columbine shootings, hundreds of miles away from Denver. Michael then cuts in extracts from the speech made in Denver to make it look like the whole scene happened at one