Review of Bowling for Columbine (2002) by Jacob B — 10 Jan 2013

I tend to get agitated when people discard this film because of the supposedly left-wing bias of Moore, but where's the sense in that? What's leftist about making a film exploring deadly violence? Is wanting to find out the sources and prevent future incidents from happening 'leftist'? I could see how people would accuse Moore of a liberal bias because he implies that certain political policies lie at the basis of these lethal incidents.

But ultimately, he doesn't give a definite answer to the question 'why do Americans shoot each other more than other people do?'. He hints at some very plausible suspects, but ultimately he gives no answer, and that's what most rabid right-wingers don't want to see.

Because it's easier to just discard the movie without seeing it.