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| Bowling for Columbine - Feast (16/01/2003 7:22:15 AM) |
Watch this movie, because it's a wonderfully atypical Hollywood production.
I would have thought that a movie from America about gun control has gotta be biased by the culture that made it. The movie doesn't run like a documentary in the Documentary Channel sense, nor does it have the dry academic flavour of a research paper.
It's emotional, it doesn't pull any punches and it's been pitched as a wake-up call for US, perhaps especially important in these times of over-aggressive US foreign policy. Ghandi is actually mentioned in the movie. The guy interviewed didn't know who Ghandi was. This was no accident.
It's basically about guns. It's about death. It's about why these two factors are so related in the US.
The film won't provide any answers, but it will shock. There are a few good punches in for the Left (which I enjoyed), and the scene where the "bank" sells a complementary gun with membership was just so poignant, I nearly wet myself.
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Everybody has to see this movie! Quick before it leaves the cinemas. I freaking mean it!!!
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| Saw it at the Dendy last month. It was great. I thought it DID provide SOME hints/answers. (Apart from the self-evident reasons why guns are bad, mmmmkay.) The statistical comparisons between gun ownership in different nations, and correlated gun-related deaths in those different countries was revealing. The animated short in the middle (perhaps courtesy of Stone and Parker?) went a long way to explain the origins and effects of general paranoiac neurosis of the American nation.
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