Bowling For Columbine Bias

Bowling for Columbine depicts the overwhelming gun violence in America. Despite Director Moores efforts to make an informative documentary his bias is evident. With the use of exaggerated facts, emotional exploits, and blatant bias. Moore shares his personal perspective on the availability of firearms in America.

Moore utilizes the viewers emotions with propaganda style sequences. Ranging from exploring an incident that leaves the viewer remorseful. then immediately battering his opposition. At approximately an hour 30 minutes Moore goes from consoling the Beull elementary teacher to a video clip of Hestons gun speech which seems insensitive. painting him as the bad guy. This is definitely what Moore wants, to appeal to the viewers as a kind

man reaching out and looking for answers, but he is, in fact, a greedy man willing to manipulate facts to prove a point

like using death tolls of Canada to America aren't comparable since Canada's 31 million to America's 285 million population in 2001 so. hands the gun death toll in America would be higher

In the opening scene Moore shows how easy it is to get a gun in a bank but this is not the case because North County Bank was outraged with their portrayal in the documentary saying the transaction was inaccurate and that it was certainly not as easy, crucial parts were modified out like the full FBI background check identification and the money you have to deposit to open the account would cost thousands of dollar.s.

This scene was structured to give shock value, his question “isn't it dangerous to hand out guns in a bank” (Moore Bowling for Columbine) which actually isn't since the gun isn't loaded it would be as harmless as a walking stick

Moores big play in this documentary is emotion, at Heston's house he storms of fed up with Moores harassment and Moore stays put holding up a picture of the girl shot in the Beull shooting with only one cameraman behind him making it impossible for the shot but with the help of extra footage and editing he is able to achieve a heart aching scene of his frontal holding up the child's picture 120 minutes into the documentary . Moore went above and beyond to prove his point although his claims were nothing but lies

Cocaine Cowboys is a documentary made by editing together different people telling the story from their perspective as well as facts to give a clear visual of the magnitude of the situation the corresponding net narrations from the people give this sense of honesty, truth and the dialogs from different people seamlessly illustrate the cocaine Cowboys story.

Stories are edited in unison to tell the overall bigger picture, media news articles and reports are shown in collaboration with the dialogs to fortify the narrative

George Griffey confessed his involvement in 29 murders during cocaine wars suspected and another 12 killings in the scene describe how the godmother killed and mutilated a man leaving him on the highway pictures of the mutilated men are shown with his narration is evidence we see this 82 minutes in the documentary.

The gruesome story Rivi tells is unbelievable but with credible evidence of the events the viewer has no choice but to believe such an act could be carried out

The way this documentary is structured follows the most notorious people involved with the crime wars in the beginning of men involved with starting the surge of cocaine explain their side of the story and transition to the more violent years where Gonzelda was at her peak she was involved with the first major shootout in Miami dubbed the war

wagon.

20 minutes in we see how Mundy and Roberts from Cocaine Cowboys assemble the drug trade to the exponential increase in violence which Rivi was a major part of which he states 80 minutes into the documentary and how the F.B.I finally cracked down on drug syndicates.

The cocaine cowboys narrators would tell their perspective of the events that took place and other speakers side of the story would be edited in like putting together a puzzle to unveil the bigger picture for instance 35 minutes in Mooney talks about an argument she had with Roberts and he tells his side of the scuffle too. This is another method used to assure the viewer that the speakers are credible, the documentary relies heavily on commentators alibi so they take any opportunity to convince the viewer that the events that took place are factual