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Originally posted by Oblivion437:
How does the ignorance of a bunch of people an ocean away make our lot over here better? It doesn't.
Bowling For Columbine hasn't improved America, but projected a false image of America. One is given the sense that Americans are a bunch of fringe-lunatics on the edge and ready to snap at any moment, that all gun owners are racist twits etcetera ad infinitum ad nauseum ad absurdum. Moore is a salesman, pure and simple. He doesn't care about the American people any more than John D. Rockefeller or James Pierpont Morgan did. He wants money, and selling people on 'radical' ideas based on shock-u-mentary styled pretenses happens to be big business.
It's as George Carlin said:
"The biggest industry in America today is the manufacturing, packaging, distribution and sale of bullshit. High quality bullshit, 100% pure American Grade A bullshit, but bullshit nonetheless."
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I'm going to ignore your introducing statement and still disagree.
BFC does NOT present all gun owners as a group of racist, lunatic, right-wingers.
1. It would be a far stretch to present them as a small number of "gun-nuts" in a country where there's about 1 gun/inhabitant.
2. It's clearly stated that Canada has a lot of guns while presenting Canadians as a bunch of very peaceful people (Unfair or not, but gun owners are not attacked here specifically
IMHO the movie raises the issue the US has with violence, be it fictional or very real.
"WHY do [Americans] kill each other at this rate" is the question MM repeatedly asks and comes up with a lot of possible answers which he then procures to discover don't necessarily apply.
The film doesn't give any answers or come to any conclusions on this issue - which may be viewed as a weakness or as a strong point from different POVs.