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Date Posted: 08:46:21 04/20/03 Sun
Author: Kharn
Author Host/IP: kharnserv.xs4all.nl / 213.84.47.237
Subject: Hmm...
In reply to: Gwydion 's message, "Re: That's an interesting point" on 14:59:41 04/19/03 Sat

>I already knew about it, obviously, but what did you
>think about how the NRA was represented in the movie?
>Did you catch on to the fact that the "Cold, dead
>hands" was from a different speech? Did you get the
>impression that the NRA held rallies in Littleton and
>Flint in response to the tragedies? I'm just
>interested in what someone who is essentially outside
>of the politics thought.

Well, Moore is convincing, obviously more so if you want to hear what he's saying.

I was fairly unbiased when I started watching, though. And while I just "listened over" (so to speak) his comments on the NRA response was a bit unlikely. But I'm not very familiar with the NRa.

My initial feelings, before reading that anti-Moore article, were that those rallies must've been unrelated or dragged away from their original purpose, BUT I did believe that Heston's "cold, dead hands" was from the post-Columbine speech, untill I had read that article. Moore also tries to push an impression in your face that Heston held that speech the day after Columbine, but I wasn't too concious of the dates he throws around at that time.

>To me, the most worrying aspect of this film is that
>it's presented as a truthful documentary yet takes a
>lot of unfair jabs at conservatives and conservative
>dogma. It seems like people that don't know better
>could easily get the wrong impression.

It did strike me at the end of Bowling that this is a bad documentary. I actually told my brother, literally, that "If this was a film student's work, he'd get a 1, because it misses all elements that a good documentary has to have".

The scope of falseness wasn't clear to me until I had read that article. But again, I can't shake the feeling that Bowling is still worth something.

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