My feeble review on the movie...

Today, as an interactive study session, we were shown Michael Moore's critically aclaimed documentary 'Bowling For Columbine.'

Presided by proffessors John Thaliath, S. Datthathreya, Johan & Olivia, we were asked to watch the movie and give our comments on it with a legal & socio - psychological twist to it. Basically, they asked us to go deep into the docu - drama and interpret it in our own words.

The 'movie' was all about Americans' irrational and overty paranoic affinity to keep fire arms with themselves and the consequences of it thereof. What I could fathom was Americans lived in a state of constant deniability of the truth and literally feeding from the media. It is this surrealistic mindset that invokes them with fear - of others and of themselves as well.

We were shown clips of a few incidents involving campus / school shootings with illegal firearms, which generated worldwide anxiety about the fact that little kids could very easily get their hands to such weapons. Related issues like poverty, global warfare, umemployment were also highlighted with passionate subtlety. Incidents like the Okolohoma City bombings, Littleton school shooting, Virginia Tech massacre and such were discussed with varying angles - that of the public, the victims and that of the culprits as well. Society as a whole is deeply disturbed by the easy availabilty of arms & ammunition to practically everyone. There was also a comparison of The United States and Canada and the apparantly very low crime rate in Canada. We also discussed the mindset of the common white community that it is the racial mix of black, yellow, hispanic, brown people that is the root cause of all the crime prevalent in their nation.

Oh and yeah, there was also a small blame on Marilyn Manson...

All in all, timepass, given the fact that Sneha who was sitting behind me, asked me to lie down all throughout the movie so that she could see it...gave me a bad backache.

Later.