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Originally posted by Strafe
I'm generally someone who looks at both sides of the story, but all in all, I'm a conservative. I always thought that he was waaay liberal but his documentaries were at least things to think about. His behaivor at the Oscars tho, joke or not, was way out of line. And now I see this report where his documentaries are full of distortions, lies and outright fraud...
http://hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html
Then again, I don't know anything about this Hardy guy either.
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I have read some parts of the websites text. To me the whole part about if the movie is documentary or not, doesn't consern me since you can discuss that on and off forever and diffrent people have diffrent views on what a documentary is. The Academy has it's own.
On the part that the NRA has set the date years ahead I feel that it's disrespecting to not being able to respect the victims by changning the date/skipping the visit. As for example radio stations feelt after 11/9 that they didn't want to disrespect the tradegy by playing songs that have lyrics that might be upset people who's in great pain. The text also complains on the way NRA is being portrayed. Well you can't show a 4hour NRA rally and 2hours of demonstrations against firearms in a 2hours long movie. All movies, fictional or not uses clips to symbolises diffrent thing. If you are to show a car chase or a murder hunting observing his victim you go between diffrent angels, diffrent clips. That's how movies works, Moore want to make people react and to start thinking in an diffrent way. He choose to do this by exaggerating to get the reaction needed.
I believe.
Then there is talk about how many people that dies by gun homicides in diffrent countries. And counting on how many people there are in the USA and how many nr firearms every citizien owns there is a clear fact that many people dies by gun homicides. I don't know the stats on every country in the world, but I know the nr of people who dies in Europe is very low, but there are very few people owning firearms over here. When it comes to how many people that dies in Canada I can't say without making false guessing. But I can only think that it might have to do on how you store your firearms and what you uses them for and how educated you are on them. I don't know for shure what is the reason/reasons for the gun homicides, but firearms, the way people view upon them etc are things that might be apart of the issue. Moore doesn't have the solution or the proof of what is the exact evil behind all. But he trying to bring the question in to the light so people as us and others can discuss it and do research on it to find solutions so that people who want to own firearms can do that and use them for hunting and other sensible purpouses while people can live safely knowing how to keep the firearms away from their childerns and educating them on the dangers with abuse of firearms. And letting the police etc do protection and helping them by protecting herself by more effective and less dangerous means.
Then there are some complains on however people can trust the movie and anyone that firmly believes that every movie that is a "true" documentary is always true should start thinking. Cause every book, article, movie etc is always to a certain degree a personal work and can never be perfect. There will always be mistakes and you can never make a movie that shows every side of the coin and show it correctly. I'm shure you could have made movie from the oposit side that was just as funny and good. But what I like about Bowling For Columbine is that it in and serious and funny way brings up a subject that people seem to ignore and that concern everyone and that is about the most important thing in our lifes, living. Being able to life safely without the risk of 6year olds getting their hands on weapons that can bring death to innocent people.
Now I have written for so long that part's might have been wrongly spelled and somewhat confusing since I might start an teory and end up forgetting what my though was. Also bear in mind english is my second language.