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- 1. ANALYSIS OF “BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE” Jason Kim
- 2. OVERALL DOCUMENTARY SUMMARY • Astronomical number of people killed • Easy availability of guns • Violent national history • Poverty • America‟s culture • Obsession for firearms Free gun for opening bank account • Equivalent number of people killed • Wide spread ownership of guns
- 3. INTERPRETATION OF FILM • The film maker clearly and convincingly expresses his rage at the way of fear, violence and the ignorance has impacted America • “Are we just a nation of gun nuts or are we just nuts?” • The tone of the documentary takes a critical and analytical approach • Educate the audience and Some montages that are shown as the song earn their agreement to side „What a Wonderful World‟ is played in the with his argument background • His point of view is clearly expressed throughout the documentary
- 4. THEME OF DOCUMENTARY • Gun has nothing to do with the violence of America • Naturalization of Guns • Fear Breads Violence • Incident of Columbine High School • The sloppy laws of American Columbine massacre led by two high school Gun control students • Violence in the American Society
- 5. HOW DOES THE SOUND DESIGN CONTRIBUTE TO THE STORY TELLING METHOD? • Helps accentuate the film maker‟s message • “What a Wonderful World” Louise Armstrong • Happy Subject + Depressing Images • Gives an ironic message • Transition • The uses of non-diegetic sound 9/11 Plane crashing to the World Trade Center • Convey a mood and invoke a reaction
Editor's Notes
- Today I will be talking about the film ‘Bowling for Columbine’ by Michael Moore in more depth.
- The Unites states of America is famous for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms. The activist Michael Moore sets out to explore the cause for this bloodshed and during the process he learns that the answers to the easy availability of guns, violent national history, and even poverty is insufficient to explain the violence in America as other countries share those same factors without the equivalent number of people killed through firearms. In order to arrive at a explanation for the reason of America’s violence and obsession for firearms, Michael Moore decides to take an in depth examination of America’s culture of fear and violence in a nation with a widespread ownership of guns.
- The film maker clearly and convincingly expresses his rage at the way of fear, violence and the ignorance has impacted America when it comes to gun crimes. He does this through the use of ironic humor and the incorporation of different sounds that help emphasize desired atmosphere. The tone of the documentary takes a critical and analytical approach. It scathes and expresses its disapproval at the easy accessibility of firearms. Through the film maker’s usage of language such as “Are we just a nation of gun nuts or are we just nuts?” it makes the audience question themselves if guns are really a necessity in America. It can be seen that he does not approve of this system and wants to change or abolish it. He also uses a satirical method such as non diegetic music and montages to educate the audience and earn their agreement to side with his argument. His point of view is clearly expressed throughout the documentary, thus making a very clear tone. The use of montages help create a very negative image on America, which forces the audience to think and question themselves many of the foreign policy decisions the American government has made over the years.
- Gun has nothing to do with the violence of America. Canada has around the same amount of guns that America does but doesn’t have a high death rate by guns, Japan has lots of violent games and film but they don’t have a high death rate by guns. This tells us that the gun has nothing to do with the violence but has to do with the violent society and the aggressive nature of Americans. Naturalization of Guns. Americans find it natural to have guns in their household for self defense and don’t really think about the consequences for owning a gun. Fear Breads Violence. America tries to incite fear into people for their own personal gain. Michael Moore shows us that people are afraid of things that we shouldn’t be afraid of such as, during the 1990’s people believe that crime rate dropped majority of the Americans believed that the crime rates were on the rise. A real life example of fear is the incident of Columbine High School in Littleton. 2 High school boys killed 12 students and one teacher along with wounding many other students. In this film, Michael Moore defines’ fear’ when students and teachers hid underneath tables when the 2 high school students raided the school with guns. At the end the they turned their guns on themselves. The sloppy laws of American Gun control, enables people to have the easy accessibility to guns, which also contributes to the violence in the American society.
- The Sound Design helps accentuate the film maker’s message on the alarming amount of gun violence in America. Throughout the scene, the song, “What a Wonderful World” by Louise Armstrong is played in the background. The happy subject of the song, coupled with the violent and depressing images , gives an ironic message to the song, questioning if the world around us is truly “beautiful.” This is made really obvious when the music ends, as the 9/11 incident is shown and the woman screams in the background. Transition between the montage and the plane crash is almost immediate. The uses of non-diegetic sound is used throughout the film couple of times. Michael Moore uses music backgrounds in some scenes that doesn’t belong to the actual sound in the scene, which is known as the non-diegetic use of sound. In the case of “What a Wonderful World,” the non-diegetic use of song is being used to ironically show us what is happening in the screen. It acts to convey a mood and invoke a reaction from the audience which is irony.