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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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[luxvesperis.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that link. I must pass it along to my friend whom I watched this with. After we left the theater, we were ranting on and on about how Moore skews facts and how he's a total hypocrite.

My position has remained the same since I saw this movie:
Its worth watching this movie because it raises some good questions but it shouldn't be taken for the complete truth. Its a total conspiracy theory. The scary thing is that most of America simply ate it all up. They're hungry for a reason to protest to scream to be righteous. Even me saying this is in that same spirit.

Its incredible how careful I am choosing the words to discuss this film. Its not that I completely disagree with him. But many times in the movie I can't tell what the hell he's trying to say. After a while my head just started to hurt.

And after the Oscars, I was simply disgusted. Yes, freedom of speech and all that. But have some respect. For the Oscars, for the other people there, for the spirit of the ceremony itself.

Okay, I should stop before I start ranting even more.