nibot | (no subject)

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (and outright lies?) in Bowling for Columbine. Thanks to Alex for the link.

The point is far more fundamental: Bowling for Columbine is dishonest. It is fraudulent. It fixes upon a theme, and advances it, whenever necessary, by deception. To trash Heston, it even uses the audio/video editor to assemble a Heston speech that Heston did not give, and to turn sympathetic phrases into arrogant ones. Moore's object is not to enlighten or to document, but to play his viewer like a violin, to the point where they leave the theater with heartfelt believe in that which is, sadly, quite false.

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although i did like bowling for columbine very much, after analyzing some of the logic later that night, i wound up feeling rather dirty. the "what a wonderful world" montage is another attempt to play the viewer into making connections between events that are not necessarily related.

i am not terribly fond of michael moore.