tirsdag 12. januar 2010

Bowling for Columbine

-The movie is about guns in the United States.

-The massacre at Columbine High School is an important theme in this movie.
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold played bowling before they went to school. They came to the school armed, and they killed 12 of their fellow students and a teacher before they killed themselves.

-Michael tries to figure out why so many in the U.S. are killed with firearms.

-He meets Charlton Heston in Hollywood and talks about a little girl who was killed in Michael home city, by her clasmate, that was only six years old. He had found a gun in his uncles house, and brougth it to school and shot the little girl.

-I learned that in the US people are allowed to have weapons to protect themselves.

-11,000 people die in America each year at the hands of gun violence

-In the United States they offer you a free small arms if you sign in a bank account, they have over 500 small arms on hand inside the bank.

-The Michigan militia, which is a group of people who live for the right to protect their own home with all means. Two of the members were also members of the terrorist attack, "the Oklahoma bombing"

- The rocke-icon Marilyn Manson had to endure a lot of "crap" from the media and organizations for the shooting drama at Columbine High School, they thought it was his fault, and that he provoked such acts with his music and cloudes.

-After September 11th Bush spent most of the country's money on warfare to eliminate the Taliban government and ask Osama bin Laden to justice, we will see a speech by Bush that he requires even more money from the Congress for warfare. This in spited of that the country's economy was in recession.

-The film can be viewed as an attack on the U.S. government and especially Bush.

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I think it was well made when he showed United foreign disasters from 1950 - today, with the song "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong.

-Moore's conclusion is that fear that is the cause of Americans' gun fixation.