Bowling for Columbine again

We saw the film on Monday evening… and it was better than I expected.
I had read some weak reviews of it, and foolishly believed them: since when did critics ever get anything right?
It had more depth and was more shocking than I expected. In a scene depicting the results of US unilateralism played to Loiuis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World, his long "Oh yeah…" at the end was marked with the collision of the second plane during the World Trade Center attack. It made me shudder, in a way that those images that I have seen hundreds of times never have before.
What I liked is that Michael Moore is clearly a US patriot of sorts, but says "Let's make this place better!" instead of spouting the deadly conservatism and "It's in the constitution" nonsense that nearly everyone he meets does. So what? Change the constitution!
It was funny too. In an interview with a twentysomething high-school dropout, he asked why he was kicked out of school. The response was something like:
"Oh , I pulled a weapon on this kid I didn't like. They told me I couldn't come to school for like 360 days. Or 180 days. Or whichever one is a full academic year…." Well, I laughed.
More on conservatism and fear soon….. oh and patriotism too.

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July 23, 2003 | Filed Under General 

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