Jason Kim

ANALYSIS OF “BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE”

OVERALL DOCUMENTARY SUMMARY

• Astronomical number of people killed

• Easy availability of guns

• Violent national history

• Poverty

• America’s culture

• Obsession for firearms

• Equivalent number of people killed

• Wide spread ownership of guns

Free gun for opening bank account

INTERPRETATION OF FILM• The film maker clearly and

convincingly expresses his rage at the way of fear, violence and the ignorance has impacted America

• “Are we just a nation of gun nuts or are we just nuts?”

• The tone of the documentary takes a critical and analytical approach

• Educate the audience and earn their agreement to side with his argument

• His point of view is clearly expressed throughout the documentary

Some montages that are shown as the song ‘What a Wonderful World’ is played in the background

THEME OF DOCUMENTARY

• Gun has nothing to do with the violence of America

• Naturalization of Guns

• Fear Breads Violence

• Incident of Columbine High School

• The sloppy laws of American Gun control

• Violence in the American SocietyColumbine massacre led by two high school

students

HOW DOES THE SOUND DESIGN CONTRIBUTE TO THE STORY TELLING METHOD?

• Helps accentuate the film maker’s message

• “What a Wonderful World” Louise Armstrong

• Happy Subject + Depressing Images

• Gives an ironic message

• Transition

• The uses of non-diegetic sound

• Convey a mood and invoke a reaction

9/11 Plane crashing to the World Trade Center