“Bowling for Columbine” is a documentary that talks about how gun violence in America is linked to the American psyche and it’s view on itself and guns. Michael Moore spends the most of the film examines the reason. Why the gun violence is a problem in United States. This documentary shows how Americans are obsessed with guns and gun nuts. He also argued that Americans are obsessed with guns and full of fear and that fear is leading to violence violence in America.
Michael Moore used some several techniques like, Interviews, statistics, archica, footage,voice over, narration and many more. Michael Moore has used several successful techniques that are used in in the film to position the audience to accept his version of the truth. To start off he used editing. This technique is used throughout the film to shape the opinion of the audience to match Moore’s. In the film some quick cuts are often used, these quick cuts can then be used to highlight sections of these scene and leave out unwanted parts which makes audiences think that Moore is right .
For example, at the start of the film when Moore buys a gun from bank and ask someone if they think its a good idea or not but the film quickly cuts out to a short of Moore outside the bank, because the audience is never seen the answer so they go with the Moore’s side and assume that the bank didn’t have a good answer. So this technique makes big effect on audience to match with Michael Moore. The next technique is “statistics” means’ no of deaths by guns in some countries. Michael Moore used statistics in the film.
This obviously made audience persuade because it showed no of death ny guns and how violent the gun is. Moore used this because this clearly explains how gun violence is high in United states than other countries. Michael Moore uses Marilyn Manson as a cause, but more German has a larger goth population than the united states with less gun violence (Germany 381 incidents per year) He also put forward violent movies in France just like “The Matrix in French subtitle (France 255 incidents per year).
He also examines video games come from Japan (Japan 39 incidents per year) Moore ends this part with no. of deaths by guns per year statistics with the countries so this explains that United states is so high in gun violence than other countries. Next technique is the main technique “interviews. ” Michael Moore used Interviews effectively in the documentary. Interviews are the main technique used in the film. Its a really effective technique because is interview of people such as the CEO of the gun factory made him look powerful.
The interview techniques in this documentary successfully persuaded the viewer by using famous faces. He interviewed Charlton Heston for the final scene. Moore left the audience thinking that Charlton Heston is a foolish, racist and ignorant. The viewer, bringing these presumptions with them into the scene, gets a nasty impression of Heston’s comments. The interviews persuaded the viewer to agree with Michael Moore’s opinion. The reason he interviewed him was because he was the spokesperson for the NRA.
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Michael Moore used Interviews effectively in the documentary. Interviews are the main technique used in the film.Its a really effective technique because is interview of people such as the CEO of the gun factory made him look powerful. The interview techniques in this documentary successfully persuaded the viewer by using famous faces. He interviewed Charlton Heston for the final scene. Moore left the audience thinking that Charlton Heston is a foolish, racist and ignorant. The viewer, bringing these presumptions with them into the scene, gets a nasty impression of Hestons comments. The interviews persuaded the viewer to agree with Michael Moore’s opinion. The reason he interviewed him was because he was the spokesperson for the NRA.
