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[monkeyfunk]

I watched Bowling For Columbine yesterday. It blew my mind.

Charlton Heston showed the National Rifle Association as the heartless vacuum it really is.

It was depressing as it's such an irreconcileable situation. Noone in America will just give up their guns. The government doesn't want people to give up their guns.

That's the bottom line.

Comments

[daz71]

Apparantly BFC is uses some very biased editting. I can't remember where I read it now but clips from Charlton Hestons speach were supposedly taken very much out of context. If I find where it was I'll add a link to the article.

[kitchenwitch]

Believe everything you see in the movies? I thought only Americans did that...:P

[monkeyfunk]

Oh, I certainly don't believe everything I see.. I do find quite a dichotomy with Moore's work. He certainly does skew things on occasion and there were points in BFC that I felt he was pushing it a bit.

But the facts of the gun culture were extremely disturbing. It's a huge problem, one which I feel is beyond any point of return.

[obscurek]

I really didn't like BFC. I was amused briefly when he wandered across the border to Taco Bell in the city I live in. I found Charlton Heston to be completely dispicable and I already had a deep dislike of the NRA. I'm firmly anti-gun. Still, I just found the thing to be too... something. I should've liked it. It just felt too much like a set up maybe. Too heavy handed. I'm not coming up with the right word to describe how I felt about it. Something was just wrong about it.

[firstplacekat]

You know... I did think it was pretty powerful. Perhaps, "eye opening" is what I'm looking for. There is some warranted controversy around the movie as not being a true documentary, and that many facts were skewed, but I agree that the statistics are astounding.

I barely know anyone who is pro-gun. I'm in San Francisco though and people say we [and Californians] live in a different country (surely that's way to general for all of CA.).

I guess I just wanted you to know that we're not all gun-totin.'

[crasch]

Here's a website that points out some of Moore's distortions.

[daz71]

That's the site I was talking about, although not that paticular page.