Bowling for Columbine (2002)

Documentaries, all that comes to mind is an hour in history staring blankly as a boring voice proceeds to tell you things you really don’t care about. Ms. Washington changed my outlook so fast I was surprised my head didn’t spin. In her showing of Bowling for Columbine by filmmaker Michael Moore, I couldn’t wait to get to class everyday. His uneven clips of guns and violence beg the question, “Is America Violent?” He tells of a story of how easy it is for people to get guns and how our lives are so violent. The 2002 documentary is an in your face way of explaining the problems. He even goes a step further and visits Canada where he continues to show how violent America is. I mean, they don’t even lock their doors, and here were suspicious of Halloween candy. Moore goes further and examines America’s, “culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership.” The only thing that doesn’t make sense to me is that this movie is rated “R.” There is more violence/sex in twenty minutes of a “PG-13” movie then in this entire film. Just begs the question, “Is it ‘R’ because of the actual violence or is it a political thing?”

I’d rate this documentary: *