May 302012
Bowling for Columbine [Part 3 of 12] (10 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=865Onxt9H2M
I remember leaving the theatre shaking my head. No one should be surprised by the massacre of students at Columbine High School in 1999. Michael Moore does a very good job of showing the conditioning to violence in the American culture. In this excerpt he focuses on Lockheed Martin.
- There is a detailed description of the movie on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_for_Columbine
- A shorter description, Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com): Filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the reasons behind the massacre of 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. He documents how two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, easily acquired four firearms, despite having a history of arrests, juvenile detention, counseling sessions, and drug dependencies. He documents how the U.S. has ended up as a country with the highest number of gun-related killings on Earth. With interviews with people like Charlton Heston, former President of the National Rifle Association, who lives in a fortified mansion, Moore shows how easy it is to acquire guns and munitions – with examples of a bank giving a free gun just for opening a bank account, and of one particular municipality that makes gun-ownership mandatory. Moore then links the involvement of the U.S. with tyrants and terrorists such as Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden for its own narrow gains – resulting in the deaths of millions of civilians from 1953 through to 2001 – and its refusal to review and change it’s now notorious ‘Foreign Policy’. (gunwanti@hotmail.com)