Bowling For Columbine Documentary Analysis

BOWLING FOR COLOMBINE
MICHEAL MOORE DOCUMANTARY

There are many techniques that you can use to show in a documentary, facts about people, places and events and “Bowling for Columbine” is a documentary that shows all of those plus more. Michael Moore has got a unique way of using all the techniques that you would see in a documentary to get his story and opinion across to the viewers. Usually in documentaries the producers are behind the camera and in the editing room but what makes Michael Moore’s documentaries different is that he puts himself, his charisma and his questions in front of the camera. Many of his documentaries have been criticized and have caused major controversy within the media because he dares to ask the hard questions and dares to go where no other documentary has gone before. The documentary is heavily producer dominated. All throughout the program you see him manipulating things behind the scenes and he is the dominant narrator. There are scenes where action domination comes into play like when he used his camcorder in Kmart and the footage is all over the place but the tactic was very strategic and he had a reason for doing it like that. It’s his persistence and
It’s his strategies that have people watching and talking. They call it the Moore Method. It’s five methods that he is famous for, comedy, tragedy, infiltration, confrontation, and speculation. He uses these widely in his documentaries. These have gotten him much world acclaim but also caused a lot of controversy and bad reviews, one coming from an Australian Mark Steyn. He heavily criticised everything that Michael Moore does is in his documentaries. I didn’t agree with anything he said and I think he tried too hard saying things like “I’d tell him to piss off and then fire a warning shot”. I think that’s just too