English Communications – Bowling for Columbine
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Tim Walters English Communications - Bowling for Columbine The debate of film category has been the focus of many writers and historians since film began. Nowhere can the authenticity of a film be better argued than in Michael Moore's "Bowling For Columbine". In many people's opinion "Bowling For Columbine" is a documentary, which focuses on gun violence in America. However, other people believe "Bowling for Columbine" is based on deception and false statistics and therefore cannot be classified as a documentary and must be fiction. After all documentaries should not contain misleading information or false statistics as method of persuasion. This essay will discuss and argue the authenticity of "Bowling For Columbine" as a documentary. What we expect of a documentary plays an important role on how we as viewers perceive "Bowling For Columbine". For example if a documentary was biased based its information would not be authentic and would...

