Lies, lies, more lies

I have read all over the internet that Michael Moore's "oscar-winning" documentary mockumentary was based on completely fabricated statements, but I wasn't prepared for this level of disgusting lies and deliberate vilification of people just so he could make a few quick bucks. I remember talking to a colleague about ow deceptive this movie was, when he responded that there was nothing wrong with a few white lies if the movie makes you think - I thought the argument was pretty weird then, but now that I know how much of the movie is outright lies and deception, I think this movie makes you think as much about the "guns" as a Holocaust -denier would make you think about the suffering of Jews .

Stupid Academy Award

The Michael Moore production Bowling for Columbine just won the Oscar for best documentary. Unfortunately, it is not a documentary.

Bowling fails the first requirement of a documentary: some foundation in the truth. In his earlier works, Moore shifted dates and sequences for the sake of drama, but at least the events depicted did occur. Most of the time. Bowling breaks that last link with factual reality. It makes its points by deceiving and by misleading the viewer. Statements are made which are false. Moore invites the reader to draw inferences which he must have known were wrong. Dates are transposed and video carefully edited to create whatever effect is desired. Indeed, even speeches shown on screen are heavily edited, so that sentences are assembled in the speaker's voice, but which he never uttered.