Bowling For Columbine Review

For my other movie review, I watched Bowling for Columbine. My first time watching a Michael Moore film, so I really didn’t know what to expect.

I didn’t have much of an opinion going into it, and I still don’t have much of one coming out. When I sat down to write the review the next day, a lot of things occurred to me. The side that supported guns in the film was portrayed as stupid pretty much. But the side that didn’t was shown in a much better light. I really didn’t like this honestly. The film seemed way too one-sided. For a more affective argument, he should’ve explored the opposition’s opinion in a more favorable light. He should’ve shown them more evenly, but then it really wouldn’t be propaganda I guess. He definitely wants people to believe what he says, or at least get people thinking and questioning; I guess Moore feels his side is the only one that can do that.

It was obvious he had a huge agenda in the movie. There really wasn’t as much on Columbine as I’d thought there would be. He touched upon (or fully covered) several different issues, some of which were too far out there for me. It seemed like a huge collection of his beliefs.

I wish there would’ve been more on Columbine though, I mean, Columbine was in the title of the movie…