...Fahrenheit 9/11 This is a film that will make U.S. citizens really think about what actually happened on September 11th, 2001 and what is still happening with our country. Whether viewers of this film are fans of Michael Moore’s work or not, he keeps viewers guessing throughout about what he is going too pursued upon them next. It is almost hard as a first time viewer of this documentary to believe everything that is provided throughout the film. Moore has ways of convincing his viewers into what he exactly wants them to believe but sometimes he is lacking the credibility of where this information is coming from. Obviously there are parts of the film that viewers cannot argue with, in cases where there is footage of political officials or general public talking on a certain subject. But at the same time Moore usually doesn’t include what he is always asking the interviewee, so once again is he just showing his audience what is needed to be heard in part will make the viewer believe in what he wants them to. One of the most catching parts of the film as a viewer is Moore’s choice of music in particular scenes. While showing live clips he would play songs that take the scene to another level. He makes the viewer really focus on what he is trying to impose through the music playing in the background. As a viewer it is easy to see that when Moore is using a specific song in the scene it is simply adding to the situation that is being viewed. In all the cases whether it is some...
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...Sydney Nelesen 13 September 2016 The Idiot Wall In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the government-controlled television shows are catered towards a society of conformists with short attention spans and no desire for any substance or meaning. There is a show in which people randomly yell at each other for no reason other than that they are in some sort of argument. Mildred watches this show, and when asked by Guy what it is about, she has trouble trying to explain it. Guy prompts her with questions about the people arguing and she struggles remembering. Mildred watches her television shows and does not comprehend what is going on because the shows are very nonsensical. She is not bothered by the lack of sense, though. All she cares about are the pretty colors and loud noises. The way she acts towards this plotless show reveals that she is superficial and ignorant. Mildred also has get togethers during which she and her friends only watch television and barely communicate. When they do, it is about their television shows, another of which is The White Clown. Mildred invites two of her friends over to watch The White Clown. When the show comes onto the walls, “A woman smiled and drank orange juice simultaneously… the room took off on a rocket flight into the clouds; it plunged into a lime-green sea… White Cartoon Clowns chopped off each other’s limbs… the room whipped out of town to the jet cars wildly circling an arena [, and then] a number of bodies [flew] in the air”...
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...In Ray Bradbury’s futuristic short story “The Pedestrian” the protagonist, Leonard Mead struggles against society’s norms. In a society where everyone is attached to technology, Leonard Mead is different from everyone else. The society does not consider him normal because he writes books instead of sitting in front of a tv screen all day. On top of that, he goes on walks at night while people are in their houses. Using the setting of a dystopian future, the author conveys the theme that technology poses as a threat to society. The setting of Mead’s society demonstrates how technology threatens the future. In the year of 2053, Leonard Mead feels as if he is “alone in the world” because no one is ever outside (1). Mead feels lonely in his world...
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...point is that Bowling is deliberately, seriously, and consistently deceptive.” David T. Hardy mean that Bowling for Columbine is deliberately and seriously but he also mean that the documentary differently are deceptive. To deceptive someone is to give someone the wrong perceptions by tricking them or give them false information. Hardy means Michael Moore differently give us wrong information. This argues Hardy by telling us that Michael Moore for example have changed in Heston’s statements. Michael Moore has taken audio of seven, from five different parts of the speech. Actually is one section giving in different speech. It is first after the weeping victims, Moore using the quoted “I have only five words for you…. Cold dead hands” David T. Hardy means Michael Moore use that statement it should seem directed to the victims. Another fact David T. Hardy uses is Michael Moore’s comparison with Ku Klux Klan and NRA. “This sequence is intended to create the impressions either hat NRA and the Klan were parallel groups or that when the Klan was outlawed its members formed NRA” Michael Moore says NRA is subsequent organisation of Ku Klux...
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...The Columbine High School massacre in Littleton Colorado will always be remembered as an unforgettable horrific event that still leaves a mark on the town today. The controversial filmmaker Michael Moore took his take on it and ventured into the creation of events that took place that day. The documentary that was produced, directed, and written by Moore deconstructs the events of this particular decimation and uses his techniques to compose a use of visuals, sounds, editing, and political messages. He portrays his viewpoints as well as cultural perspectives through archival footage, interviews and intertextuality. He makes sure to have a purpose for each shot to leave a harsh yet defying impression in our minds. "In Moore’s eyes, the Columbine...
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...This happened in the month of April back in 1999. The two, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold attended a bowling class in the wee hours of the morning. They started out shooting aimlessly killing many innocent victims in the process. It was later proved that the two were actually absent from school that day and had nothing to do with the case. As far as many people are accorded rights to own guns, his study reveals that there is no actual link between violence and owning guns by Americans. What is evident is the culture of fear instigated by the media and the government. It is an advantageous move to the manufacturers of guns and to the...
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...Year 10 English – Perspective and Bias My target audience for this Documentary review is people that are 15+ this is because teenagers and Adults are the once that are interested in this kind of things. Bowling for columbine was made in 2002 and this was an American documentary that was made by Michel Moore. In this documentary Michel is trying to convince all citizens in America that having guns is dangerous and they shouldn’t be allowed and other acts of violent with guns. At first, it seems his answer will be obvious: readily available guns. But what appears to be a simplistic anti-gun polemic broadens in scope, to tar the media, racism, greed and US foreign policy. Michael Moore clearly and convincingly expresses his rage at the way...
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...Bowling for Columbine This movie is a documentary of what the narrator Michael Moore believes is the cause for the Massacre in Columbine high school in 1999. This movie was written and released in 2002. The Massacre in Columbine high school was committed by two students: Dyan Klebold and Eric Harris. These two students attended classes for bowling and were absent from school the day they murdered 12 students and a teacher. This also left 21 people injured at the scene. The narrator Moore starts off the documentary talking about “bowling” in Massachusetts could be a big factor in these two seniors’ students committing this crime. “Bowling” is when shooters use bowling pins as their targets and helps target vital points on the human body in case you ever had to shoot one. Furthermore, Moore went through out the documentary assuming that anger and being in the suburban environment when bomb making etc. is very popular could have caused the very shocking murder act. Therefore, Moore believes the problem in America’s society is that guns and weapons are too easy assessable, shown early on in the documentary by the use of a skit from Chris Rocks standup comedy saying “the price of bullets should be increased because there would be a smaller killing rate and less innocent by standers”. This quote reveals that Moore agrees with Chris rocks point and it conveys messages that if you are going to keep guns so easily accessed then at least have the decent to increase the prices. Although...
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...Review Bowling for Columbine: -by Kasper Jørgensen Rating: Michael Moore’s documentary “Bowling for Columbine” is inspired by the school massacre at Columbine High School back in 1999. The film explores what Michael Moore suggests could be the reasons behind such a tragedy. An early scene of the movie shows how Michael Moore gets his hands on a hunting rifle, simply by opening a bank account (!) Just before leaving the bank, Moore asks, "Don’t you think it's a little dangerous handing out guns at a bank?" A clear indication of his point of view, so early in the documentary. Michael Moore uses several effects to affect us, the whole setup of the movie is so messy and cleverly cut, that you have to be a true-blood American and blissfully unaware about things around you, not to feel that he has a point with this documentary. He uses the shock effect many times, best illustrated by the video montage of some of the awful American foreign policy decisions. Along with this montage of video footage, the song: What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong is playing, which of course is ironic as hell. His strongest argument for all the gun violence in the U.S.A. is the fear that gets thrown at the Americans, throughout their entire lives, all broadcasted by the media. He also shows the American history, through a hilarious animated movie, with a bullet as the narrator. All in all, if you want a good laugh, try to understand other countries mentality or just want some possible...
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...Michael Moore a man that when people mention his name draws instantly, great controversy. In many cases people choose to either love or hate him. Today in the great many pages of information on Michael Moore it is hard to find the plain truth. The question lies to the truth of Mr. Moore’s editing and ethical interviewing styles. It seems more and more readers are swamped with loads of blogs, reports and satire from the arm-chair news rooms of the local coffee shops about how this or that is better than he or she. It is harder to sit down ask a question and get the “who what when and where” of a story that is actual fact. Michael Moore presents himself as a person of the people His very nature is that of an unassuming common man, from his oversized clothes to his frumpy walk to the typical ball cap, Michael Moore seems like a person that anyone could know from his or hers’ own neighborhood. (Wilshire, 2004) The man takes pride in making sure that he states he is one of the people and claims to represent the people. On the contrary Mr. Moore makes sure that he tells people he meets for the first time that he is from Flint Michigan. Actually Mr. Moore is from a little town close to flint called Davison Michigan a sleepy suburb of the run down city of Flint Michigan. (Spence, 2010) In the movie bowling for Columbine Mr. Moore portrays all Americans as a gun wilding, violent and heartless as a society with no care for the common person. Mr. Moore targets Charlton Heston...
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...plane. Moore claims “The plaque underneath it proudly proclaims that this plane killed Vietnamese people on Christmas Eve 1972.” (Moore, Michael) Moore’s phrasing implies that the plaque praises the deaths of civilians, however the truth behind the plaque is a different story. When Michael Moore was criticized for his inaccurate paraphrasing of the plaque, his response was: “I was making a point about the carpet-bombing of Vietnam during the 1972 Christmas offensive. I did not say exactly what the plaque said but was paraphrasing.” (Moore, Michael) Moore misleads the audience and deliberately keeps the plaque hidden off screen so he could get away with the deception. Moore was insinuating that it was America’s own fault for the attack on 9/11.What seems to be another solid point starts to crumble after finding that Osama had not used any ‘CIA Training’ on September 11th, Moore was simply just reminding the audience that CIA had some sort of dealing with Osama in an attempt at concreting his...
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...Montag’s attitude shifts from oblivious to divergent in order to convey not to make decisions off of what others are doing, but to make decisions off of what you think. On page one the quote, “...to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn…”. Bradbury includes this desire of Montag to show that he is completely oblivious to the fact that the books can help him. Instead of Montag trying to make use of the books, he is unaware of the fact that they can help him as portrayed by Bradbury. Bradbury further showcases Montag’s oblivious attitude by noting his unawareness of his job as a fireman. The quote on page 6, “ ‘It’s fine work. Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn ‘em to ashes, then burn the ashes…’ ”. The quote talks about how firemen have a slogan, which makes it ordinary for Montag to burn down houses and books which Montag is oblivious to because he never follows what he thinks is right. What Montag does is that he makes his decisions basing them off of what others are doing. Montag also talks to Clarisse nonchalantly about being a fireman which means that Montag doesn’t realize how doing what others have done influenced his life as a human being. Though Montag was first portrayed as an oblivious man, he later shifts to a divergent attitude later in the book. On page 21, Clarisse is conversing with Montag and the quote, “... ‘You’re not like the others’... ‘you looked at me’.....
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...# 2) Statistic source:The montage continues (with martial music playing under Michael Moore’s voice-over. Then he goes on to wonder about all the people in other countries—they go bowling, they listen to rock music, they watch violent movies, play violent video games, etc. Now he really gets wound up. Is it poverty? Is it our Western tradition of clearing the land and destroying indigenous people? But wait—look at other countries and the violence they have wrought. Cut to Hitler as a graphic on the screen says, “Germans exterminate 12 million,” and “Japanese occupation of China,” and “French massacre in Algiers,” and “British slaughter in India.” His voice-over: In spite of all this, how many people are killed by guns each year? As he recounts the figures, the graphics pop up on the screen (across images from movies, tourist travel films of the countries, and other archival footage: 381 in Germany, 255 in France, 165 in Canada, 68 in the UK, 65 in Australia, 39 in Japan, and 11,127 in the USA. this particular source strengths Moore's position because he shows actual statistics on the screen. Interview source: Michael Moore uses interviews as a source for his film. He keeps the cinema verite style moving: we keep seeing the people he is interviewing and hear him ask the questions before they answer them. He finds two people in bars and asks them if they lock their doors. Nope. He learns that both of them have suffered break-ins. But do they lock their doors...
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...Censorship is the practice of officially inspecting books, movies, and etc. and concealing unacceptable parts. In the book, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, tells the story of a man named Guy Montag who first loved his profession as a fireman but later on, he starts to question his way of life. The book’s dystopian society is immersed with technology and they avoid having deep or meaningful conversations. Bradbury shows how banning books and removing complex thinking can change society’s views. Censorship is the main theme of Fahrenheit 451 because the government controls how the people think and feel. The first reason why censorship is the main topic of the novel was their reliance on technology. The people spent a huge amount of time on their television that was wall-size sets and also listen to ‘Seashell Radio’ that’s attached to their ears. Bradbury writes, “...his wife stretched on the bed...in her ears, the little seashells, the thimble radios...electronic ocean sound of music and talk of music…” (Bradbury, 12). This quote shows an example of how the people had become lazy and not wanting to engage in activities because their advanced technology can do most of the simple things needed to be taken care of. Bradbury states, “Toast popped out of the silver toaster, was seized by a spidery, metal hand that drenched it with melted butter. Mildred watched the toast delivered to her plate.” Another example can be when Mildred puts a piece of bread into the toaster and when it...
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...VICTIM RIGHTS, ADVOCACY, AND JUSTICE IN OUR POST-9/11 NATION Though there had been terrorist attacks in the United States prior to September 11, 2001, the events on that day in the skies above America, and in the cities of Washington, DC, New York, NY, and Shanksville, PA led to an unprecedented focus on the rights of victims and survivors, and historical expectations were placed upon our government as Americans looked to our leaders for protection, reparations, and justice. In some estimation, our government reacted swiftly, passing legislative measures that would reinforce the strength of the American economy. In other respects, individuals found it necessary to form private groups to advocate for measures and benefits that would not otherwise have become law without their fight. Certainly, in the realm of victim rights, advocacy, and the demand for justice, our post-9/11 nation has endured a dramatic metamorphosis. The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund was created by Congress through the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act (49 USC 40101), shortly after 9/11 to compensate victims (or their families) of the attack, should they agree not to sue. There was no such government compensation for other tragedies on American soil, such as the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City or the Katrina hurricane disaster. In this instance, the airlines asked Congress for help, and Congress decided that the airline industry “must remain...
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