Specialist studies Shania Bowling for columbine Michael moore
Specialist studies Shania
Bowling for columbine – Michael moore • Bowling for columbine 2003 – Michael Moore • Bowling for columbine is documentary about a Columbine High School massacre in 1999 committed by two teenager’s boy who both attend the school. • The opening sequence of bowling for columbine starts with patriotic music over a moving montage of modern day America. the tone of the voiceover is spoken in a sarcastic and humours way. The start of the montage tells the viewers the daily jobs of an American. As he lists the job he slips in a joke about the President of the united states. ‘The president bombed another country who name we couldn’t pronounce. The joke hits that one of the daily job the president has is bombing which shows how normal it is for the president just like everyone normal jobs as a farmer, teacher, soldiers and so on which is seen to be a typical American job in small states. • The bank sequence was an inside look how easy it is to buy guns. He used to show corrupted America is as it shows you can basically buy guns any where and in everyday shop and places like Walmart, the bank and barber shop. • The boyhood life sequence shows the views that he once pro-gun as he grows up around guns and even wore an NRA award. He shows his passion of gun started from a young age as he hometown of Michigan was known as ‘Gun lover’s paradise’. Moore showing the viewers his past about his love of guns shows that has not biased and to show why his view on gun has changed through this documentary. • The dog sequence was used to show of careless and stupid people act with guns. Putting a gun on a dog you must be delirious. During the interview between Moore and the police officers the question Moore ask to emphasise the stupidity for the whole situation as he can not take the situation serious himself. • I feel like Moore intentionally uses humour in a serious documentary to cause an uproar, so he can get the attention needed for this serious situation. He wants to be an awareness to something American turns a blind eye on due to America having legally passed a law gun and its one of the things that makes American rich due to the wars, and trades American makes with other countries. Moore using humour is almost like his taking the mic out of American as it so corrupted.
Are smartphones making our children sad? • I agreed that smartphone are making the children of this generation sad. Smartphone has become a stable item in young children life due to technology developing and becoming more and more useful in life. • Some agree social media is run by fear. Fear meaning that they constantly have to be active on social media such as Instagram. They would have to post pictures to be part of society or part of a certain social groups and if you don’t have any social media platform you would be seen as weird wont be accepted. • Studies shows that smartphones are causing depression. Smartphone can cause one to have depression as not having the latest phone can cause kids to be stressed and become depressed • Its also hard for parents to see that smartphone are destroying their children. As parents not knowing the effect of a young child in this generation not having a phone can affect they mental due to bullying and the feeling of not being accepted.
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