Capitalism: A Love Story is a scathing documentary-style film presented by director Michael Moore. The film takes a hard look at corporate and financial America and the power these systems have over the democratic processes of the American government. In light of the 2008 American financial “meltdown”‚ Moore does not view capitalism as merely currently problematic‚ but a blatant evil that emphasizes greed‚ corruption‚ and immorality. This paper offers a brief review of the film and considers Moore’s
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defined as a film that provides a factual record or report. But how factual is a documentary‚ really? This presentation aims to investigate the persuasive devices used in Bowling For Columbine. This is a documentary by well known director Michael Moore‚ which uses a range of filming techniques to persuade the audience that the Columbine shootings were a result of so much fear‚ greed and consumerism in America. This is his extremely biased idea of the truth. In Michael Moore’s exposé style documentary
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Bowling for Columbine One of the most important goals director Michael Moore set for himself was to deliver a plethora of insightful and through interviews. Throughout all these interviews‚ a common theme that Moore sought to address was regarding gun control. More specifically‚ he sought to inform his viewers of the different sides and perspectives people take about guns‚ and how they are handled. Naturally‚ when Michael Moore interviewed citizens from Michigan about such a tense subject‚ the answers
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BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE "BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE"‚ DIRECTED BY MICHAEL MOORE‚ DEALS WITH THE PROBLEMS OF GUN CRIME IN AMERICA. THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS FILM IS TO PERSUADE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO CHANGE THEIR IDEAS ABOUT GUNS AND GUN LAWS. MOORE CONSTANTLY REFERS TO OTHER COUNTRIES SUCH AS CANADA AND THEIR GUN POLICIES TO BACK UP HIS ARGUMENTS FOR INCREASED GUN REGULATION. HE IS SUCCESSFULLY ABLE TO COUNTER ARGUE ANY REASON GIVEN BE PRO-GUN SUPPORTERS AS TO THE REASON WHY AMERICA HAS THE HIGHEST GUN RELATED
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Good morning/afternoon Teachers and peers‚ today I will be talking about Michael Moore’s need to persuade us into believing that America is a gun driven country. In this documentary‚ Bowling for Columbine‚ Michael Moore has used many persuasive techniques to get us to believe that every person in America feels safe to have a gun somewhere in their house for protection and that there are many terrible things that happen in America. To prove that Americans feel safer with a gun in their house and how
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Change in “V for Vendetta” Juxtaposed With Change in “Ode on a Grecian Urn” Alan Moore published the first part of “V for Vendetta” in 1982 and the second part in 1983. The novel takes place in dystopian England in the year 1997. Many different plots and characters inhabit the tale’s world‚ but the two protagonists consist of V‚ an anarchist revolutionary with a strong vendetta against the current fascist government‚ and Evey Hammond‚ a sixteen-year-old girl that V takes under his wing and educated
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“Capitalism: A Love Story” directed by Michael Moore examines the social impact corporations have on society. The film shows the power and political influence that these large corporations have and how these corporations have taken advantage of the American people for the pursuit of profit. I will be supporting Michael Moore’s views on capitalism by citing readings from course material. I will use three readings to support Michael Moore’s views on corporate political dominance‚ his view on capitalism
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and Me” by Michael Moore is a documentary film about Roger Smith’s takeover of General Motors in the late 1980’s. Michael Moore documents the change in the movie from the economy in the city of Flint‚ Michigan. He attempts to find Roger and meet with him and talk about General Motors and the changes that have been made. He wanted to convince him that the changes were devastating Flint. Michael Moore has a hard time finding Roger because he is a busy man. Throughout the film‚ Moore goes around Flint
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Bowling for Columbine director Michael Moore takes a look at gun violence in America and the causes behind such horriffic events that have led to Columbine. In the film Michael Moore explores the question "What makes the US have the most gun deaths than the rest of the world?" By exploring this Moore and his viewers explore a variety of reasons‚ The strongest point made by Moore is that largely through the media the United States is a fear based society. Moore gives examples of this when showing
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it to teach. Although the techniques by which an old comedy and a new comedy might do this can differ‚ the effectiveness generally stays the same. For example‚ when you take the two comedies Lysistrata by Aristophanes and Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore‚ you see that they both share the common goal of spreading antiwar sentiment while using different tactics. This is not to say that they don’t also use similar tactics‚ because they do. But being that Lysistrata was written around 411BC and Fahrenheit
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